Today's health news includes the genetics of picky eating, new rules on research misconduct, and a Science issue devoted to ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

This is at least the third time an animal has been found abandoned in Colonial Heights in the last four months. On Friday, June 29, a dog was found tied to a tree in the parking lot of a PetSmart ...

Neuty the nutria became a tongue-in-cheek media sensation in 2023, escaping capture by wildlife agents with the help of ...

Are you thinking about getting a pet snake? Choosing between a corn snake vs. milk snake can be tricky. Both species look ...

Now the species is considered invasive, with established breeding populations in Everglades National Park in South Florida, after pet pythons escaped or were released into the wild by their owners ...

On the freezing waves of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, researchers aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould dropped a trawling net into the water. They were hoping to catch zooplankton, but when ...

The scale lets us place animals into categories, like “pet”, “food”, or “vermin ... Just look, for example, at how he paints rats, the animal that has become his trademark.

Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine teleost fish species are at risk of extinction, up fivefold from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's prior estimate of 2.5%. Their report ...

Scientists found a “large”-headed animal in a burrow under some rocks in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wanchai, Rujirawan, Murdoch, Aksornneam, Promnun ...

A monthlong survey of mountain ecosystems in the remote seas of the southeastern Pacific Ocean has not only turned up a never-before-seen seamount but also revealed many species of sea life ...