It's that time of year again – and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on – when we recap the many ...

In the late 1800s, deer almost vanished from Pennsylvania. Discover how a total population collapse turned into the state’s ...

Filmmaker Bertie Gregory's new documentary special captures the extreme challenges facing the world's fastest land animal.

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...

Learn how the beaver helped build Oregon from territorial days to statehood and became its official state mammal.

A wolf that isn't alive but still howls, growls and flashes red eyes is suddenly in the spotlight in Japan, where a jump in ...

Then they use the rudimentary spears, which are around 75 centimetres long, to stab bushbabies while they sleep in their ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

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