This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As a society, we tend to hold romanticized notions about life in the wild. We picture these rabbits nuzzling with ...

A series of uncannily timed bets on the price of oil and stocks deserves a proper investigation. It’s far from clear that they’ll get one. After college, I joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds ...

This PSA had social media clogged with one-liners. A whacky government cartoon warned Seattle residents how to deal with rats that might climb up from flooded sewers into toilets – but social media ...

To the editor: If Zoe Rosenberg achieved her mission of releasing every poultry chicken from captivity, she would fail at her goal of making “every animal … safe and happy, free” (“An animal rights ...

Despite being one of the most wide-ranging wildcat species, the Afro-Asian wildcat faces a threat from its own evolutionary successor—the domestic cat. Interbreeding leads to hybridization and genetic ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? Subscribe to read this ...

Grab your glasses for this one, because we’re talking animal eyes. Eyesight is one of the most important adaptations animals rely on for survival. As humans, we know how much we depend on our eyesight ...

When it comes to pet ownership, many animal lovers look beyond cats and dogs. Some pet owners prefer snakes and lizards, while others like cuddling up with rodents and rabbits. That’s led to some ...

A few months after a fight between The Wild Animal Sanctuary and a home developer blew into the open this spring, the Keenesburg animal rehab haven has filed suit claiming that a years-old agreement ...

Eunice Framm, senior keeper of barnyard animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, has taught pigs to bowl, goats to paint, and red pandas to receive vaccines. She, and all other keepers, do so through the zoo’s ...

In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and ...