But those shrieks and happier chirps and whining sounds have been sounding off less and less in the past two decades. In ...

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932.

The mating game in the animal kingdom is nothing less than fascinating and somewhat weird. Some species stab, clone, chew, or ...

Today, 85% of children with cancer survive to adulthood and about 1 in 3 are left infertile from chemotherapy or radiation.

They are often disparaged as ugly, sly and cruel scavengers but for South African artist Hannelie Coetzee, hyenas are symbols ...

Studying the early development of human embryos is challenging due to ethical constraints and technical difficulties.

Microplastics have been found in unborn cats, proving that plastic pollution can reach fetal tissues early in pregnancy.

A team of scientists set out to determine how many ants live on Earth at any given time. The answer is astounding, to say the ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Florida coast, was captured on video by SeaTrek ...

The debate over human uniqueness is shifting as data has emerged suggesting that other animals can also generate cultural ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

As the only mammal in the world covered in scales, pangolins are unique. These creatures are solitary and nocturnal. Very […] ...