Animals experience the world in surprising ways humans cannot, a difference at the heart of this year’s World Animal Day theme.

Animal conservationists often move elephants between herds to improve biodiversity and group health, but what if the elephants don't speak the same language? Studies suggest that populations, even ...

The study of animal behavior is a cornerstone of psychology for several reasons. Ethology, or the study of animals in their natural habitats, sheds light on how animals interact with each other and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What do you call a group of butterflies? How many teeth does a wolf have? What's the smallest rodent in the world? If you know the ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact that ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

From deserts and mountains to oceans and coastlines, the U.S. is teeming with creatures that are anything but ordinary—whether they’re flying up above in the clouds, lurking down in the deep blue or ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eliot Schrefer, author of Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. It's about how "natural sex" may not be as binary as some think. At ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in ...