The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

The production of transgenic livestock has the opportunity to significantly improve human health, enhance nutrition, protect the environment, increase animal welfare, and decrease livestock disease.

Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), the world’s longest, is challenging that perception. With its intelligence and ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...

A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new name, and it’s also a fruit, a Washington zoo said. The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was named Ume, ...

With so many holidays, awareness days, education weeks, and heritage months happening all year long, we’ve been slowly ...