Animals

Putting your cat out into nature may do significant damage to the local ecosystem.

New research suggests that recent moves to increase the numbers of sought-after trophy species might be ill-advised and counterproductive.

Researchers warn that all of the underground salamanders living in an aquifer system near Austin could disappear in the next century.

Mahouts ride their elephants in a river swimming race during the Buon Don elephant festival in Vietnam's Central Highlands in the Dak Lak province on March 12th, 2019.

These conflicts are particularly apparent in the Hassan district of Karnataka, the state housing India's largest population of Asian elephants.

A new study definitively disproves a decades-old theory that human "handling" of the animals caused their rapid disappearance from Serengeti National Park in 1991.

Commuters interact with an elephant as he rests on a public road ahead of the annual Navam Maha Perahera festival of the historic Buddhist Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 18th, 2019.

A worker installs a portion of a fence along the Danish border with Germany that is meant to stop wild boar from entering Denmark, on January 31st, 2019, near Tonder, Denmark.

As researchers tag an increasing number of species, a debate has arisen over the consequences for animal welfare, conservation, and technology.

As wolves arrive in California for the first time since the 1920s, ranchers are turning to non-lethal methods to deter the gray wolves, once seen as livestock-killing vermin.

It's a question of whether animals featured in movies are acting in the first place.

Evidence from our closest evolutionary relatives suggests that we might not be the only animals with a sense of gender identity.

The great ape personhood movement aims to extend legal personhood to apes, a distinction that recognizes these non-human animals as beings with the capacity to hold both rights and duties.

At Cedar Lake East Beach, just outside downtown Minneapolis, Jesse Dale and his team of goats are at the forefront of a new land-management movement.

While legislation that restricts agriculture can be a tough sell, appeals to animals' poor living conditions have had success with voters.

It will help scientists more accurately measure the presence of vocal species like bats, birds, bees, and tigers.

The agency's new plan retains several key limitations on animal biotechnology, despite language promoting innovation.

The competition, which ended Tuesday, provided flashes of joy during this tumultuous news cycle.

A look at the animals that live among us—known as synanthropes—that are often cast aside as pests.

The hog industry is changing, but, as Hurricane Florence hits, history may be doomed to repeat itself.

A new study lends insight into how domestication of our four-legged companions was steered by interactions with humans and their cultural practices.

To help animals navigate our fast-paced highway systems nature conservationists have started building infrastructure designed specifically for critters.

Veterinarians have become an integral part of the humanitarian response to malnutrition in the war-torn country.

Arsenic was long a preservative in the taxidermic process, despite criticism of the method as unnecessarily dangerous. But at least one contemporary scholar has suggested that metabolized arsenic extended the lives of late 19th-century taxidermists by decades.