Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, ...

Motherhood in the animal kingdom is a mixed bag. Take pregnancy: a female alpine salamander may gestate its young for as long ...

The zoo said Skie, Storm and Sprout are continuing to make progress in the kiddie pool and will be advanced swimmers in no ...

Scott Simon tells tales of how different animals unlock our hearts and deserve respect for their own magnificence and the ...

Colette Hiller's kid's book about the healing power of music is for people of all ages because of the deep questions it ...

The three otters: Skie, Sprout and Storm, are still mastering basic life skills in the water but are showing new swimming movements.

In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of ...

Two sea otters debuting for the public at the Aquarium of the Pacific are intended to one day help train up other orphans.

Unless you carefully inspect the leaves of a plant in your garden, you might not ever see the tiny little bugs known as ...

A collection of puppets from the show was up for auction A collection of Sooty and Sweep glove puppets used by the creator of the iconic BBC children's television show have sold at auction for double ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

Six years ago, Mallory Cormier adopted a three-month-old New Zealand white rabbit with ears as long as celery stalks and a mohawk-like cowlick on his forehead. Cormier named him Chickpea, and when she ...