Midland ISD Career and Technical Education is offering high school students a four-year program in Animal Science, which ...

Wild animals are reshaping Earth’s surface more than expected, altering soil, rivers, and sediment movement across ecosystems ...

When a virus that once seemed confined to animals starts turning up in both people and their pets, the line between household safety and global health threat suddenly looks thin. Across laboratories ...

In August 2013, scientists in London prepped, cooked and tasted a hamburger in front of an expectant crowd of media and food critics. After the demonstration, the Guardian deemed the burger a ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is.

The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers, and the euphonious melodies of songbirds all evolved as ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Wow! You study animal behavior. So cool!

I wanted a way of maybe helping some of these cases make it into the courtroom,” forensic scientist Virginia Maxwell said.

A humble mollusk can live to 507. The oldest Greenland sharks navigate deep, dark Arctic waters for longer than America has existed. And the wrinkly, cancer-resistant naked mole rat can live well into ...

In 1985, Congress amended the Animal Welfare Act to recognize two basic facts of life: that dogs need exercise and that primates have psychological needs in addition to physical ones. Any ...