Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

Just as artificial intelligence (AI) powers Amazon's Alexa, Gmail's spam filter, and Facebook's new friends suggestions, it’s now being used to help out the animal world.

After being hunted to eradication in Washington and Oregon in the 1930s and 1940s, the gray wolf’s recovery in these states ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Have you ever considered that the creatures we find most repulsive might actually be the ones we should appreciate most? National Geographic's recent article "The astonishing superpowers of nature's ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

When it’s time to feed the kids, koala moms do their doody. Then the little ones snack on it. Before you poo-poo the idea, a ...

“All animals with a backbone and a shell are turtles,” says Jeffrey Lovich, Research Ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, so it’s an umbrella term used for turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.

A miniature dachshund survived in the wild for 529 days. Could your dog? Experts say it depends on these traits.

There’s no unified national effort to help animals hurt by fires, Gonçalves says. Rescues are done on a local, optional basis, and their extent varies widely in different areas.

In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures. On an ...

The event was prefaced by an agreement between CITES and the World Organisation for Animal Health, a 90-year-old intergovernmental group responsible for animal disease control, to “collaborate ...