A coyote bit a child’s hand after it aggressively approached students at a bus stop in Washington, officials said. Wildlife ...

Death is inevitable for almost all organisms, but avoiding a sticky end is easier for some that happen to be insanely hard to kill.

When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. "Nobody cared about linguistics," he says in this episode of 101 in 101, a series from UC ...

NYU researchers found they could measure an animal’s consciousness by comparing how similarly it behaves to humans when ...

Canada geese are typically herded off of lakes during their flightless feather-molting period in June. In the past they've then been relocated.

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

An animal shelter in North Haven, Connecticut, revealed it euthanized a dog that viciously attacked a volunteer, leaving her with severe facial injuries.

What is similar between Asian green mussels, iguanas and lionfish? They are all invasive species in Florida you can eat. Here ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.