Some animals are capable of parthenogenesis, a reproductive process in which females produce offspring without fertilization.

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...

When people talk about saving wildlife, they often focus on numbers. Conversations center on how many deer live in a forest, ...

When many mammals are sleeping during the winter, American beavers are actively courting, mating, and rearing offspring.

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome.

Greenville County Animal Care and the Greenville Humane Society will team up to spay and neuter 500 feral cats within two days.

All animals need to eat to survive, grow and reproduce. To do so, they also need to avoid being eaten. This is a big challenge for many of Australia’s native mammals, because when they search for food ...

Something unusual is happening out in the wild in Australia. Some birds are genetically one sex but look and act like the other. Scientists looked at five species: the Australian magpie, laughing ...

Thousands of reptile eggs reach their hatching stage inside a carefully controlled zoo environment Staff monitor temperature timing and conditions as the first signs of movement appear The scale of th ...

The wrinkly rodent barely seems to age and appears almost impervious to cancer, heart disease, and mental decline. Can these astounding abilities be adapted for humans?

Scientists were baffled over how eels reproduced for thousands of years – leading to the belief they spontaneously spawned ...

Old Sturbridge Village is a completely different animal, sprawling across 200 acres of Massachusetts countryside that’s been ...