A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves.

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

On a recent morning at the Toronto Zoo, a Massasauga rattlesnake named Boss needed treatment for a mouth abscess. Massasauga ...

October 22, 2024 • Every American red wolf alive right now is descended from only 14 canids. In the 1970s, humans drove the red wolf to the brink of extinction. Because of that, red wolves today ...

A backward question mark shape on the creature's back reveals early animal evolutionary history. The earliest known animal to show evidence of an asymmetrical body lived over half a billion years ...

Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts Sep. 18, 2024 — Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction ...

Director Gints Zilbalodis’s wordless environmental fable finds comedy in animal behaviours as an unlikely gang of castaway creatures fights to survive a flood.

A study conducted by researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) suggests that species thought to be ...

Oct. 23, 2024 — New research has revealed Marri trees are critical to the survival of more than 80 species of native bee in Western Australia's South West region, which is one of the world's ...

(Maggie MacPherson/CBC) Not only is it relatively simple to avoid exposure to the disease, experts say, but there are also effective treatments available for both humans and animals who may have ...

Webfishing lets you enjoy a peaceful life of reeling in fresh fish surrounded by other players, in a cute Animal Crossing-style world of cats and dogs.