While the blue whale holds the title as both the largest and heaviest animal ever known, other whale species can weigh ...

Meet Jellybean, the newest breakout star at Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, Arizona, about 20 miles outside of Phoenix as first reported by The Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY network.

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat ...

Anyone who has seen a hummingbird poking her beak deep into a trumpet creeper blossom, or a honeyeater using its brush-tipped ...

Birds that feed on nectar or fruit evolved better mechanisms for managing metabolism, blood pressure and high glucose.

A long-term study using DNA from whale scat has revealed surprising complexity in the diets of southern Alaska’s fish-eating killer whales.

In nanograms per milliliter, these are coming in way above some of the clinically relevant and forensically relevant human ...

The semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.

This large python has found an antelope. After squeezing it to death, he starts to swallow it, only he has found himself in ...

When people think of powerful land animals, they usually picture elephants or hippos. But wild hogs and boars are some of the most adaptable and resilient large mammals on Earth. With strong bites, ...

This rare Amazon monkey targets natural weak points in unripe fruit to conserve energy and protect its teeth from damage.