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 ...

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.

I watched, fascinated, as the animal rolled around and around in a mudhole, kicking mud and filthy brown water in all directions. “I’m not sure,” I said, “but he seems to be enjoying it.” Finally, the ...

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

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 ...

Ants make up one of the most diverse groups of animals on the planet, with many species boasting remarkable physical abilities and social behaviors, and an overall species richness that far exceeds ...

If a monkey climbs onto a deer and sprawls across its back, perhaps it is simply an odd, one-off encounter. Then another monkey carefully grooms a dog. Elsewhere, a group accepts a baby from another ...

I recently came across Life At The Edge, a photobook on the rugged Caithness coastline in northeastern Scotland, by local resident Ken Crossan. After delving a little deeper into his work, I found out ...