When mice encounter an unfamiliar food, neurons in a brain region called the amygdala light up (blue). If the mice start feeling sick after the meal, the same neurons get reinforced to help the mouse ...

Zookeepers at the North Carolina Zoo work to make the animals’ habitats as natural as possible. That includes large places to ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

Camping with canine companions requires adjustments on trail. Our readers share their insider tips. The post Backpacking with ...

Colossal Biosciences revealed recently it had born three pups using the ancient DNA of the dire wolf, which went extinct ...

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House.

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Animal welfare charities have called for these establishments to be phased out, but advocates argue feline wellbeing is at their core ...

Occasionally, that river floods its banks, inundating the valley with rich soils, providing nutrients for the plants that the ...

Reared in Delaware by a World War II Marine vet prone to domestic violence and a mother lost to amphetamine addiction, Crumb ...

Would they just end up as curiosities in a zoo? "I don't think we should bring all animals back. I think it should have to fit certain criteria," says Pask. "For the thylacine it's a recent ...