Scientists have long believed that, generally speaking, the bigger an animal is, the bigger its brain. But our recent study challenges the nature of that ...

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Dehydrated howler monkeys fall from trees in Mexico. Billions of mussels, oysters and barnacles boil on the shorelines of Canada. Hundreds of Magellanic ...

An outbreak of naturally occurring anthrax has killed at least 50 animals, including cattle and a moose, in Wyoming.In a statement released Sept. 3, the ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention ...

Background Although bird flu viruses mainly infect and spread among wild migratory water birds and domestic poultry, some bird flu viruses can infect and ...

I ran into the friend this weekend at the new coffee shop on the northside. She was telling me about an event she attended where she got to do something cool; ...

In a vast convention centre in America, hundreds of booths are crammed with snakes, lizards, turtles and frogs.The animal trade expo is also packed with people ...

“I think the power of this paradigm can be leveraged to save other species before it is too late,” he adds. “We need to harness this outpouring of ecological ...

Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats.Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a second-story ...

Anchoring the boat in a sandbar, research scientist Morgan Gilmour steps into the shallows and is immediately surrounded by sharks. The warm waters around the ...

Rhinos  Some but not all rhino species are endangered. Black rhinos, Javan rhinos, Northern white rhinos (a subspecies of white rhinos), and Sumatran rhinos ...