Faced with the quandary of how to get mountain lions out of trees for scientific analysis, researchers dosed them with ketamine, then climbed up to ...

State fish and game officials declared mountain lions in the Central Coast and Southern California threatened under the state ...

Q. You wrote that blue whales are the largest mammals. What are the largest and smallest animals of other groups? What ...

By listening in on their nightly hunts, scientists discovered that small, fringe-lipped bats are unexpectedly able to efficiently take down prey nearly their own size.

KILLER whales have broken into an all out cannibalistic civil war, scientists believe. Biologists have warned of an all-out ...

Discover how extreme animal sizes, from the massive blue whale to the tiny shrew, shape their survival strategies.

Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above ...

Often mistaken for their more dangerous relatives, the delicate by-the-wind sailors are largely harmless and rely on wind to travel the open ocean.

Researchers in Uganda have discovered a complex network of animals feeding on bats infected with Marburg virus, capturing startling footage of potential spillover risks for the first time.

Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

Discovery of many predators feeding on bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals, researchers hope ...

Discoveries of mummified cheetahs in Saudi Arabia reveal that multiple subspecies once thrived in the region, offering new insights for reintroduction efforts. T ...