On the morning of Jan. 5, a soldier deployed at the Chitwan National Park shot a wild elephant (Elephas maximus) after it ...

House lawmakers on Thursday introduce d bipartisan legislation that would eliminate U.S. funding of experiments on animals ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

Supporters are hopeful that it will do better this year and that it gets the attention of budget cutters in Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

This time it really did feel like the end of an era. And what an inglorious end it was, a gruesome mockery of a powerful, ...

Bird flu, also known as H5N1, continues to spread among U.S. livestock, driving up egg prices and worrying public health ...

Parrots are already known for their mimicry of transitive actions, such as grabbing an object. Because they are highly social creatures with brains that are large relative to the size of their bodies, ...

Jason Kelce opened up about his sometimes unpopular parenting choices during the Thursday, Feb. 6 episode of 'New Heights' — ...

INTERPOL reported on Tuesday that 'Operation Thunder' 2024 against wildlife and forestry trafficking, coordinated jointly with the World Customs Organization (WCO), resulted in the seizure of nearly ...

For many animals, the sound of a youngling causes quite a stir. Alligators are no different in this sense. In fact, a simple ...

Our ethics columnist weighs in on the dilemma about when a predator has the right to act like a predator—and when it crosses ...