Shelter dogs have some of the funniest names—could you guess any of them? From Diazy to Ladybug, we’ve seen it all!

These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and sediments. Yet their combined global impact has never been explored, until now. Research that my colleagues and I ...

Music legend Diddy is preparing for a courtroom showdown with a jury strategy that will exceed Trump’s controversial numbers.

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Attacking the brain, CWD spreads in populations of deer that share the same spaces, which is why the province has said urban populations are of particular concern as more animals mix together in ...

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

Metabolism is known to be linked to lifespan in some species, though it remains unclear how this effect is mediated. Here they show that reduced pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) activity lowers ...

* CTC: Check the classification closer to the release date. Audio Description (AD) now features in a range of ABC TV programmes. AD describes important visual elements of a TV show and is helpful ...

"It was a human-driven extinction – European settlers came to Australia and brutally obliterated this animal," says Andrew Pask, a geneticist at the University of Melbourne. Pask is leading a ...

David Attenborough discovers the curiosities connected to the platypus. The attributes of this animal are so extraordinary, they have led to accusations of forgery and have ultimately made us ...

Most animals have no hardwired evolutionary reason to care about human language. But dogs, who've lived alongside humans for at least 14,000 years , have a special motivation to listen to their ...