New Florida law expands animal abuse database, adding details to help shelters identify abusers. Learn more here.

The world's only hairless rabbit lives in Russia. Is it the rarest animal on the planet, or does another species hold that ...

The Houston Zoo announced a new generation of baby reptiles, including animals that are the first of their kind in the zoo's ...

When a pregnant woman lies awake at 3 a.m., the question of whether her sleeplessness matters for her baby’s developing brain has long hovered between folklore and science. A new commentary p ...

After using a technique called molecular clock analysis, researchers have proposed that the origin of animals could be 200 ...

When it went live in January, some critics said "Dexter's Law," the statewide database listing convicted animal abusers, was ...

Here's how PETA’s state-of-the-art spay/neuter clinic donation could transform the future for Southwest Virginia's animals.

A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales ...

Blank Park Zoo is livestreaming giraffe Zola as she prepares to give birth to a girl, following the zoo’s second giraffe ...

Research into human-animal chimeras could have a therapeutic payoff, but the work brings up thorny ethical questions.

A coalition of 27 global wildlife conservation and animal welfare organizations urged Vantara to permanently end all wild ...

The oldest wild whitetail ever documented lived to be 24 years old. That’s impressive—but also the exception, not the norm.