The other day, Britt Ballard and her husband went out to do some birdwatching in Semiahmoo, Washington. As they were walking down a dock, they spotted a buoy that appeared to be covered in some brown ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Getting close to a stingray is risky, even for an accomplished predator such as an orca. They are not called stingrays for nothing! But if you can take them by surprise and stun them with a brutal ...

A case of appalling animal cruelty in Wyoming is close to being closed with a plea of guilty, setting a historic and significant example for the state and perhaps other jurisdictions.

But making sounds can be a double-edged sword: it can help them communicate, sometimes over long distances, but it can also reveal them to predators. In new research published in the Journal of ...

Animals on land and sea use sound for different purposes – and alterations in their environment can change the effect it has ...

Most of us grow up knowing the basics. A baby cat is a kitten. A baby bear is a cub. Simple. But once you look beyond the usual animals, things get interesting fast. Some baby animal names sound made ...

A groundbreaking Trinity College Dublin study reveals that some animals process visual information more than three times faster than humans.

Cody Roberts' plea helps create legal precedent, but Wyoming lawmakers still need to ban vehicular killing of wildlife, writes Wendy Keefover. The post Guilty plea changes Wyoming’s wolf torment case ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

Alaskan lakes/rivers teem with grizzly bears, moose, seals, whales, sea otters, etc. But beware, know the dangerous ones!

Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?