As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

Hippos are some of the earth’s largest land animals. Their name derives from Greek when they were called “river horses,” ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — A “loud and explicit” parrot has been causing quite the stir at a Fall River animal shelter. Hendrix, a blue-and-yellow macaw, was recently surrendered to the ...

Scientists from City St George’s, University of London created a terrifyingly realistic android head to determine whether ...

The 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth cost an estimated £13.8 billion in today’s prices, devastating farming businesses and leading to the slaughter of thousands of animals.

Brazil Certified Free of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Without Vaccination, Expected to Open New Meat Markets New status requires heightened surveillance to prevent outbreaks May.29.2025 4:45PM Read aloud ...

Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s state oil company, to begin offshore oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. In ...

With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth” that swam in Earth’s oceans 506 million years ago. Mosura ...

Hippos have a unique adaptation that lets them open their mouths underwater without ingesting water. Their tongue closes off the esophagus, preventing water from entering their throat and lungs, which ...

“She’s facing it, it’s facing her, and it suddenly jumped out and got her, so she was in all the way up to here, her whole head inside its mouth,” she said.

More than 2,000 cows must be destroyed on a farm in northern Hungary, where several animals have become infected with foot-and-mouth disease. Due to the outbreak, which affects pigs, cattle, sheep ...