This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A terrifying Christmas Day crash on a snow-slick Northern California highway turned into a life-saving rescue mission after ...

An Ohio man who once appeared on a short-lived reality show about swingers has been arrested on alleged child and animal sex ...

Have you ever called an alligator a crocodile or thought a llama was just a fancy alpaca? It happens to the best of us!

Science-based comics make it fun to become fluent in dog and to use the golden rules of social behavior for the benefit of dogs, their humans, and trainers, a win-win for all.

Cedric and Denise Lodge were both sentenced to prison for selling body parts, including organs, skin and faces, from the Harvard morgue. Flying with holiday gifts? Here's what TSA won't let through.

Footage on a dashcam captured the moment a man grabbed the weapon of a gunman during a mass shooting in Sydney's Bondi Beach. Video credit: Jenny President Trump signs executive order reclassifying ...

Pets and livestock have long been selected based on traits such as friendliness, diet, and ease of management. But not every animal that could be useful ever got the spotlight. In the Americas, a ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Chances are, if you’ve lived in any sort of community, you’ve probably seen a stray cat or two. Maybe you’ve even heard someone say, if you feed a stray, it will keep coming back. In this story, that ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Soay sheep, native to Scotland, are known for their hardiness and small size—and also for their cheatin’ hearts. The breed earned the dubious distinction of being the least monogamous in a new study ...