From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

From pangolin scales to elephant tusks, from African gray parrots to manatees, the illicit trade in wildlife products and ...

The wood stork has been removed from the federal endangered list after decades of conservation efforts led to a population rebound.

Terror birds were large flightless predators that dominated parts of South America after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossil evidence shows they relied on powerful legs for speed and a massive ...

Some animals possess combinations of traits that make them appear almost unreal. A platypus hunts with a duck-like bill while carrying venomous spurs on its legs. Pangolins defend themselves with ...

Frogs are interesting creatures, but they are best admired in marshes and other natural habitats, not on your front porch.

But jackdaws have a shortcut. A new study suggests these clever birds learn to recognize predators by eavesdropping on the adults around them. By linking adult alarm calls to unfamiliar sounds, ...

Del. Ellen McLaughlin proposed a publicly accessible, statewide registry that included the names of people with felony convictions for cruelty to animals, including animal fighting, maiming, ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

If we were to list some of the most common animals, we might think of sharks, foxes, or dolphins. However, the world has ...

Humans are often described as “super-predators,” but wildlife may not respond to us as uniformly as once thought. People have ...

The victim was attacked by the mob of vicious canines on March 6 around 11 a.m. outside Howard Edward Hayes’ Dade City home, a source said.