Build-A-Bear's new Frosted Animal Cookie collection has people melting over the stuffed pink giraffe and white camel that ...

While most wild animals avoid humans, a small number of species are responsible for the majority of fatal attacks each year. Some are predators by nature, while others bite or kill out of defense, ...

Reptiles shed their skin, but not all of them do so equally. Discover the differences between snakes and amphibians when it ...

Advances in biotechnology have made it possible to grow meat from cells in a laboratory. While the technology is usually aimed at producing animal meat without farming animals, scientists have pointed ...

Forget fluffy puppies and purring kittens; some people have a fondness for the truly peculiar when it comes to their animal ...

While the country grapples with issues related to animal welfare, the founder of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) entities worldwide, Ingrid Newkirk (76), spoke to Free Press Journal’s ...

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat each day and the ethanol content of their favorite snacks. With those ...

Rat and mouse baits are an everyday product. But these chemicals can persist in the tissues of rodents that eat them for months and poison native animals.

Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

The fire at the Northwest Portland location is under investigation, trying to figure out who is responsible after some surveillance camera footage.

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

Japanese yew is a non-native plant used for landscaping across the West. Wildlife managers hate it because it’s highly toxic to animals. “They pretty ...