The World Cup gets a hilarious animal twist as the rescued crew joins the football fun.

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 ...

Here are the top four ways dogs exhibit their trust, according to experts. You can generally assume that the person a dog ...

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, ...

We can observe animal behaviors and sometimes interpret them correctly. Other times, we jump to the wrong conclusion. Take a ...

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 ...

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other ...

Spending time with pets can help youth refine their social skills and learn how to handle emotions, according to recent ...