From Gracie the giraffe to kangaroos and antelopes, Texas has long been home to free-ranging exotic mammals.

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Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its face. Catania first saw a star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) ...

Amid a year of tremendous loss due to wildfires, Los Angeles' thunderous applause at another World Series win and unrest over political decisions from the White House that affected Southern California ...

Many animals possess remarkable memory and intelligence for survival. Different species have evolved unique mental abilities ...

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Zoos are great, right? You get to be up close and personal with some amazing animals that you’d pretty much never get to see in the wild. Clearly, zoos are a win for people. But when it comes to the ...

In Hamza Loves Animals, Hamza Yassin meets lions, monkeys, elephants and more in Africa. Here's how you can use his ...

This evocative photograph of Qinling golden snub-nosed monkeys won the grand prize in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition run by the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London. The pair is ...

In Disney’s film version of Pinnochio, the boy-puppet rescues his creator Geppetto by lighting a fire inside Monstro the whale, who has swallowed them both. The fire causes the whale to sneeze, ...