In the shrouded forests of the Annamite Mountains, along the border of Vietnam and Laos, lives — or perhaps once lived — one ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Local birding expert David Sonneborn took me out birding a couple of times, and we managed to see Hudsonian Godwits in the ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

Critically endangered axolotls that were captive-bred then released into wetlands in Mexico City have successfully adapted to the wild, a new study has found, giving new hope to scientists trying to ...

Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in ...

There has also been work on IsiXhosa insect names, and there has been a SeSotho animal word list published online. Indigenous ...

In 1954, during bird surveys in Huambo Province, researchers captured a dark chanting goshawk at the base of Mount Moco and ...

MIAMI – A man who Miami police said tried to outrun officers Thursday not only received a felony fleeing and eluding charge, but an animal cruelty charge as well. That’s because police say the ...

“So those are showing that those animals actually were there, even though there’s not a single bone or feather or any other bodily evidence of those two types of animals being there.

Some residents blame city inaction — and say the city’s dog-control municipal codes are too weak, particularly because the city doesn’t have an animal-control department. Atwood has insisted ...

Their work builds on several decades of findings in the field of animal communication—not only in sperm whales but throughout the animal world, from songbird syntax to chimpanzee gestures and ...