In the African wilderness, a spotted hyena pauses for a drink in Tanzania’s savannah.

The ugly five, if you may-warthog, hyena, marabou stork and vulture among them, form the wild’s backstage team, working ...

Chimpanzees are clearly among the most intelligent of all non-human animals, but they are rarely regarded as killers. And yet ...

A zoo outbreak shows how SARS-CoV-2 rapidly evolves in animals, revealing why monitoring COVID-19 in wildlife is vital for ...

Research on SARS-CoV-2 in zoo tigers, lions, and hyenas shows rapid viral evolution and adaptation, offering insights into cross-species transmission dynamics.

In the animal kingdom, the creatures with the biggest hearts – relative to their size – are often the tiniest among us.

To put that into perspective, it takes about 4,000 Newtons to break a human femur. So a single bite from Crocodylus porosus ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The ...

An animal not seen in Ohio in over a century, the fisher, has been spotted on a local wildlife camera. The sighting has raised hopes that the native mammal is naturally returning to the state.

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) have submitted proposals to add 42 ...