What if, his team pondered, there was some way to get a look inside the egg sac to see how a baby shark develops? Enter: the ...

Photographer Tim Flach has three goldfish and two Burmese cats. The latter, Hunt and Blue, eagerly keep their owner company ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

Shows they evolved flight-ready brains in different ways from birds ATHENS – Flight is a rare skill in the animal world.

Populations of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), playful animals that resemble large dolphins, stretch ...

Ancient DNA from Mycenaean livestock reveals a rare western Mediterranean lineage in pigs at Tiryns, offering new insight ...

Researchers say the 3,000-mile journey taken by the North Atlantic right whale is the first documented case of its kind, ...

A rare young pygmy sperm whale dies after swallowing a plastic bag: an exceptional case that highlights the alarming impact ...

In the animal kingdom, pregnancy rarely follows the rules, with many species being pregnant for a year or more.

A newly identified sponge group called Vilesida is giving scientists a clearer view of animal origins, linking sponges with ...

These wild horses were introduced to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 1998 as part of a "rewilding experiment." ...

A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other ...