A large herd of bison gathers together near the edge of a forest, with adults and younger animals resting and standing across ...

The wheel spider has one of the coolest ways of escaping predators: rolling away. Read here about why and how they do this.

A small shorebird has perfected one of nature's most theatrical survival tricks, and it pulls off this performance every time ...

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Welcoming a new animal into your home sounds adorable and fun, but the adults know that it’s not all cuteness and cuddles.

Every night, sometime around 10 p.m., Mollie clocks in. He does not lace up shoes or check the weather. He climbs into a running wheel in an apartment in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and starts moving.

As dusk settled over the Mara Triangle, a section of Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara National Reserve, Oloimina, an elderly male lion with an epic mane and a limp sustained from a tussle with buffaloes, ...

Raise your hand if your dog has weirdo-antics? Mine do!

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the ...

We call them "man's best friend," and the evidence supports it. Dogs have been found buried alongside humans in graves dating ...