Humans are social beings and complex emotions have always been a part of human evolution but did you ever wonder that some ...

The sea otter pup was tiny, probably less than 2 weeks old, alone in Morro Bay on an October morning earlier this year. A ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways. For a long time, scientists ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

From caterpillars disguised as the dead to narwhals that play with their food, here are the animal tales that we loved in ...

When an elephant calf falls or dies, the matriarch (the female head of the group) and the entire herd form a protective ...

Not all animals lie down to give birth. Discover the animals that give birth standing up and learn about the reasons for this ...

Instead of a soft, gentle purr, she lets loose a series of loud, trilling noises that sound more like a tiny, ferocious dinosaur than a sleepy house cat. The contrast is hilarious and oddly endearing.

This is a classic example of eavesdropping: the prairie dogs are only trying to communicate to their own kind, but the ...

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