Pablo “Popi” García Borboroglu and Bertie Gregory have been named the 2025 Rolex National Geographic Explorers of the Year. Borboroglu has been an Explorer since receiving the National ...

For some animals, however, teeth are not such a precious, finite resource. These critters, known as polyphyodonts, have adult teeth that can be replaced a limited amount of times or continually ...

Taylor Swift has skillfully crafted a musical menagerie through her song storytelling. Swift’s lyrics frequently assign symbolic roles to animals, and we have compiled a list of 12 animals that ...

Jadden Alexander Moore is prohibited from owning animals for 50 years after the 21-year-old pleaded guilty to 80 charges related to animal cruelty. Moore was sentenced Thursday to time served to ...

Mitchell claimed he had permission to keep the tigers as "emotional support" animals. A 71-year-old man from Nevada is facing charges after authorities seized seven unlicensed tigers from his ...

Rescuers capture a sick sea lion in Santa Barbara, California. Hundreds of animals have become ill from a neurotoxin, found in algae blooms, that causes concerning behavioral changes. Two ...

She said: "This is exciting to us because it confirms that the genes and gene families that we identified using our comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat ...

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Necked lizard. Image via Matt from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons An Australian animal, the ...

Have you ever seen an animal with Blue Blood? While this may sound unusual, animals with blue blood do exist. While most vertebrates, including humans, have red blood cells due to hemoglobin ...

Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and Mesozoic sea monsters roaming the land and ocean? We might be fascinated for a moment to see these ancient animals in the flesh, but then we would worry about what they ...

Depends on who you ask, as Colossal's Beth Shapiro argued to New Scientist: "We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal." ...