A tigress was trapped Thursday in Gundlupet. Ops to capture the big cats have intensified after emergency meetings were held ...

Penguins hand over pebbles; scorpionflies give spitballs. But I’m hankering after a sea sponge presented by a dolphin, says science writer Helen Pilcher ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

From napping half their brain while flying to taking four-second naps to survive parenthood, these animals have evolved ...

What's the value of one animal? When a wild animal is found badly injured, the most humane option is often euthanasia to ...

A tourist in Colorado got a quick reminder about the dangers of getting too close to wildlife in a video posted to Instagram.

Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very risky,” said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

Dogs are frequent accidental victims of aerial poisoning, and are at risk outside poison zones (e.g. from carcasses washed onto beaches). 1080 remains indefinitely in dried carcasses – creating a ...

The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New ...

The animals at the Dallas and Fort Worth zoos are more than cute — they’re built for survival in surprising ways. From ...