The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has released a delightful selection of funny wild animal videos from around the ...

After taking a closer look at the Nature category of the 2025 Chromatic Awards last week, we’re continuing with another ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...

Every year, at the end of August, Travis Livieri drives into the grasslands of South Dakota’s Conata Basin, where, armed with spotlights and syringes, he spends his nights scooping up subjects for a ...

Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the ...

Cougars strolled down the streets of Santiago, Chile. Goats took over a small Welsh town. Jackals played in a park in Tel Aviv. And sea lions made themselves at home in a port town in Argentina. These ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As a society, we tend to hold romanticized notions about life in the wild. We picture these rabbits nuzzling with ...

They can act inadvertently witty, comically clumsy, laughingly foolish or simply truly funny. But are they aware of it? Do wild animals have a sense of humor? Or are humans the only species to possess ...

Why can't we stop anthropomorphizing our animal friends and foes? Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Orca image from Christopher Michel via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY 2.0 / Bird and dolphin via ...

Have you ever seen a dog or cat nibble grass from the lawn? Many household pets, as well as birds, bees, lizards, elephants, and chimpanzees in the wild, sometimes eat things that cure their illnesses ...

Upon opening the unidentified bag, inspectors discovered that instead of personal belongings, it contained hundreds of live ...