As unexpected wildlife encounters are part of living in Southern California, a Pasadena-based nonprofit is offering solutions to peacefully coexist with nature. When uninvited guests – racoons, owls, ...

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Animals, you’re likely the kind of person whose YouTube algorithm loads you up on animal videos: cute, amazing, mind-blowing ...

Sunderland charity Pawz for Thought says the hospital would improve animals' chances of survival.

In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and ...

Cougars strolled down the streets of Santiago, Chile. Goats took over a small Welsh town. Jackals played in a park in Tel Aviv. And sea lions made themselves at home in a port town in Argentina. These ...

Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the ...

"The camera literally has a zoom option." Onlooker captures video of reckless tourist getting too close to massive wild animal: 'Show respect' first appeared on The Cool Down.

They can act inadvertently witty, comically clumsy, laughingly foolish or simply truly funny. But are they aware of it? Do wild animals have a sense of humor? Or are humans the only species to possess ...

Why can't we stop anthropomorphizing our animal friends and foes? Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via ...