Despite bombs raining down and a lack of tools, feed and medicine, the shelter has remained operational throughout the ...

Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that ...

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

What's the value of one animal? When a wild animal is found badly injured, the most humane option is often euthanasia to ...

If someone told you it rained fish once upon a time, would you believe them? You'd be forgiven if you said "no." But get this ...

The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a ...

The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

I was wondering, as I began working on this story, whether to eat my subject as part of the research. I imagined a bold opening: “This is the longest-lived animal in the world – and it tastes great.” ...

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it's an anatomical outlier.

SEATAC, Wash. — A U.S. military veteran and his wife were reunited at Seattle- Tacoma International Airport this week with the small family member they rescued from a war-torn region in the Middle ...