The decision comes after nearly half a million people cast their votes from a shortlist of 18 creatures.

The average size of the world's monitored wildlife populations has fallen 73% since 1970, according to a new report from the ...

Scientists have sequenced his genome for the first time, hoping the world’s oldest land animal can offer clues into the ...

Invertebrate research bias in ecology is measurable and worsening: a new audit of 1.38 million papers across 612 journals by ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The Greensboro Science Center is one step closer to welcoming new species like sloths, spider monkeys and clouded leopards. Construction on the Greensboro Biodome, which will ...

Aspirin and lidocaine, two drugs sold for human pain, cut the escape response of Norway lobsters to an electric shock, ...

Colorado State University researchers have developed an open-source, $100 collar-mounted smoke logger that measures PM2.5 ...

We — and the American Association of Swine Veterinarians — believe Proposition 12 is the wrong approach. Animal welfare ...

Animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than fossil evidence suggests, according to new research. The Oxford ...

Ancient marine reptiles may have swum to shore to vomit, with Jurassic fossils offering a unique glimpse into behaviour that ...

Five freshwater mussel species new to science were identified in Southern rivers. Several are rare and live in only a few ...

It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today. But when did that ability emerge? New evidence ...