Zookeepers in Scotland have blamed pyrotechnics from annual Bonfire Night celebrations for the death of a baby red panda named Roxie. The three-month-old died on Nov. 5 after choking ...

British artist Pippa Dyrlaga has become renowned for her intricate paper cutouts that beautifully depict nature. Using a ...

What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early modern Edo period (1603–1868)? An exhibition ...

Chugging deep into the estate woodland at Audley End, the Hallowe’en Express takes passengers to a spooky grotto. Little ones ...

LOS ANGELES — As Yankees reliever Jake Cousins strolled to the mound for the bottom of the 10th inning, a simple yet delicate task lay before him: Retire the side in order against the bottom ...

The Woodland Park Zoo said animal keepers found Shila dead this morning in her habitat. "At 14, Shila was a geriatric wolf; in human care, the median life expectancy for gray wolves is 11 to 12 ...

Lara Walsh is a Chicago-based writer and editor who covers all things fashion, celebrity, pop culture, travel, and food. When she’s not avidly planning her next trip, she’s writing posts for ...

The third-largest outbreak in history of the deadly Marburg virus was sparked by a single jump of the pathogen from an animal to humans, preliminary genomic evidence shows. The outbreak began last ...

This past spring, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., was in Okinawa, Japan, gathering information for her research on carcinization, or the study of how animals take on ...

The Earth is home to some amazing animals, and many of them are well-known. Everybody knows how quick cheetahs are, how big elephants can grow, and how adorable chipmunks can be. But there are some ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...