Being a hunter is hard work! To be a predator, you have to be able to hunt. Carnivores like lions, cheetahs, foxes and ...

One of the most intelligent non-primate animals the research team has studied are elephants, which have 5.6 billion neurons. Though Herculano-Houzel notes they also have higher-than-typical neuron ...

A Montana rancher shot and killed a grizzly bear that charged him while he investigated sounds coming from his livestock area ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild ...

These aren’t your average houseplants they’re living traps that lure, catch, and digest animals to survive. In this countdown ...

Nancy Shute discusses which should scare you more: sharks or ticks and fungus — and why sharks might actually be the least of your worries.

The New World’s two biggest bats are both carnivorous, preying upon animals like mice, frogs, and birds. The woolly false vampire bat and the spectral bat, the latter of which can have a ...

A bear wandered the woods in Northern Michigan for about two years with this lid from a 55-gallon drum stuck around its neck under Department of Natural Resources biologists removed ...

Binturongs live in lush, dense forests in Southeast Asia. These bearcat-like animals are surrounded by the sights and smells of the forest, such as fragrant flowers, trees, and plants, and maybe even ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense ...

In a deeply thoughtful meditation on our relationship with animals—and ourselves—John Sanbonmatsu offers a reasoned reply to ...