South America has the most diverse wildlife of any continent, with an extremely high species count. And some of South America ...

Librarians read Librarians read “Five Little Chicks" by Lily Murray and “My Farm Friends” by Wendell Minor during the event, which drew 323 children age 4 and younger and 379 adults. Preschool kids ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

Countless millions of nonhuman animals (animals) of all sorts are used in a diverse array of laboratory research. Their treatment varies from being unspeakably inhumanely abused to being treated with ...

Scott Simon tells tales of how different animals unlock our hearts and deserve respect for their own magnificence and the ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...

Animals don't just see the world differently from one another, they experience time itself at dramatically different speeds. That is according to a new study that considered 237 species across the ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

The competition has been narrowed down from 16 animals to one winner. Readers voted for their favorite animal in the final round to determine the champion. After two weeks of fiercely adorable ...