A tiny spotted cat hiding in Bolivia’s cloud forests has just received a scientific identity, marking the first formal description of a new living cat species in more than a century. Named Leopardus tilcayo, or...

A female humpback whale has been filmed repeatedly returning to the body of her stillborn calf off Australia’s Gold Coast, giving scientists an unusually detailed look at how one of the world’s largest animals may...

Artificial intelligence is giving scientists a powerful new way to study one of nature’s oldest mysteries: how animals communicate. Researchers are feeding machine-learning systems enormous collections of animal sounds and behavior recordings, hoping algorithms can...

A 23-year-old reticulated python named Jodie Foster has made a remarkable recovery after veterinarians at Chester Zoo adapted a cancer treatment normally used in humans to treat her recurring tumour. The 15-foot snake had developed...

A rare Canadian-bred falcon has fetched 1.3 million Saudi riyals, roughly $346,000, at a prestigious auction north of Riyadh, making it the most expensive bird sold at this year’s event and the second-highest sale in...

A boat operator in Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago has been fined 50,000 Norwegian kroner, roughly $5,255, after using a vessel’s foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear. The incident, which took place earlier this month...

For more than 150 million years, the question of how the earliest birds got off the ground has puzzled scientists. A new study offers a surprisingly grounded answer: Archaeopteryx may have taken flight through a...

A widely shared video of a bottlenose dolphin carrying the body of her dead calf has renewed scientific discussion about whether animals experience grief in ways comparable to humans. The footage, recorded off the coast...

TL;DR: As North Korea battles an intense summer heatwave, state media is once again promoting dog meat soup, known locally as dangogi, as a traditional remedy for heat exhaustion. The recommendation comes alongside conventional advice...

Scientists have identified an extraordinary new form of contagious cancer in catfish, making it only the fourth naturally occurring transmissible cancer ever discovered in the animal kingdom. The finding, made by researchers in Vermont, challenges...