From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for creatures great and small.

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

For Billy Harvey, Sahara, the three-legged coyote, is a good example why people should not pick up injured animals in the ...

Our tendency to anthropomorphise our pets and possessions reveals the baggage we bring to our relationship with the natural ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

In some species, reindeer games can set the stage for future relationships with other individuals, including mating, competition for resources or territories, and predation. Anyone that remembers high ...

UCCE experts urge producers to monitor their animals for signs of the parasite, which has been moving north from Central and South America.

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

This is a classic example of eavesdropping: the prairie dogs are only trying to communicate to their own kind, but the ...

The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...