Travel stories often trend online, but only a few truly stay with people. One such moment from Ladakh is now doing the rounds ...

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, whose stories inspired him ...

A cuddly toy might be a dear childhood companion, but a group of French researchers now complain that these 'caricatures' ...

Wildlife photography is often known for its dramatic scenes and powerful moments, but sometimes nature is simply funny. The 2025 Comedy Wildlife Photography People’s Choice Awards celebrate the ...

Discover which species star in “The 12 Days of Christmas,” how they live, and whether they’d enjoy life as unusual holiday gifts.

The Oklahoma City Zoo announced the addition to its animal family following the birth of a critically endangered Sumatran ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

First up, we find out about the corvids that have been trained to pick up cigarette butts! Alas, the enterprise is no more, ...

A Scots poultry farm - believed to be one of the biggest in Europe - has reported a bird flu outbreak.

The village of Kandovan is situated on the slopes of the Sahand mountain range in Iran. The houses in Kandovan are carved ...