Mammals across the Midwest are doing their best to stay cool during the heat wave, with some help from humans.

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

We project a great deal onto animals. They are elevated into ideals of love and fidelity (dogs, horses), and often they are reduced to objects and tools (cattle, pigs, horses again). Much of ...

For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient vertebrates that started conquering the land over 300 million years ago, developed like modern amphibians—beginning their lives as purely ...

Humans love looking at cute animals. From dogs and cats to otters and sloths, social media and the internet at large are filled with video after thread after post of viral animal sensations. And when ...

When you’re talking about history, you don’t usually think of famous animals. But a few creatures actually did change the course of history, some in unexpected, even weird ways. A lioness raised like ...

You wouldn’t guess it from these photos, but it’s rare for animals to kill members of their own species—at least among mammals, in which less than one percent of deaths are caused by intraspecies ...

The Nebraska Humane Society confiscated several animals, including a zebra, from a West Omaha home on Thursday.