Footage of a Jack Russell Terrier in an office that some viewers have mistaken for a stuffed animal has delighted the internet. The video quickly racked up 267,800 likes and over 1.7 million views ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Why Trust Us? I mean, let's just stop and think for a second about the places some of these stuffed animals have been and the less-than-clean hands that have touched them over and over again. Marissa ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

A team of researchers has discovered macroscopic life beneath the seafloor of the deep ocean, one of Earth’s most extreme environments. The discovery both complicates scientists’ understanding ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t ...

In the shadow of South Australia's largest mountain range beneath the outback soil lies a fossil record that reveals a rich history of life on Earth. Fossils found at Nilpena Ediacara National ...