The animals that shared Earth with dinosaurs and survived beyond them offer profound insights into evolutionary resilience and adaptation. These living fossils and their descendants provide scientists ...

For more than 60 years, the building set for closure has been home to the zoo's fruit bats, foxes, sloths, porcupines, armadillos, and other animals.

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly ...

Adding to a laundry list of energy actions by President Donald Trump, the US Department of the Interior (DoI) will ease pressure regulations on offshore operators in the popular Paleogene play in ...

Tennessee law states just which animals can be legally kept as a pet and which only belong in the zoo or the wild.

Officials seized over 300 animals from West Coast Game Park Safari following an investigation into animal care violations.

These peculiar animals survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that eliminated the non-avian dinosaurs. Unlike all other living mammals, monotremes lay eggs rather than giving birth to live ...

Tigers, monkeys, jaguars, elephants and lions are among the animals being moved due to the cartel violence eclipsing the northern Mexican city of Culiacan.

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.

Countless dirty secrets swirl around the way animals on factory farms live, but an even uglier one may be the way they sometimes die. “If everyone had to work a day in a meatpacking plant, these ...

By the dawn of the Paleogene, ground-adapted features appeared more commonly than once imagined. Observations of these ancient bone fragments suggest that mammals responded to plant-driven changes by ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, and protection.