A free online calculator shows the number of seabirds, turtles and marine mammals you help protect by cleaning up plastic ...

Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home ...

The species’ melanosomes—tiny, pigment-filled structures inside hair cells—are hollow, a trait never before seen in mammals ...

You already know the platypus is strange. It's the animal that lays eggs, has a duck bill, shoots venom from its ankles, and ...

The sightings were the first reports of the animals in Santa Cruz since an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

The national mammal of the United States is getting in on America's 250th birthday celebration. Three bison statues cast in ...

A zookeeper in China was terrified when two hippos in his zone began fighting each other and then one turned on him!

The Marine Mammal Center received multiple reports of a northern elephant seal pup on two different Santa Cruz beaches ...

Mawsynram, a small village located in the state of Meghalaya, has the distinction of being the wettest place on Earth, with ...

For decades, ecologists lumped everything bad for animals under one word: stress. But what if animals don’t experience harsh environments as stressful at all? What if it is the opposite? Animals have ...

From whale hearts to giraffe tongues, explore how huge and tiny animal body parts really are, using everyday objects as your ...

Charles Darwin suspected that humans and animals share similar aesthetic tastes. A new citizen science experiment supports ...