Trash pandas are becoming legit!

Wild animals deliver their funniest and loudest sounds, creating a symphony of natural comedy.

Most zoo members attend a couple to three times a year. Even if they visited every day, they'd be hard pressed to meet all ...

Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study animals’ emotions and personalities — from joy to individual ...

Research on joy—those bursts of “woo-hoo moments”—is an exciting area of study across species. But the feeling of joy is tough to measure.

Winning shots from the Capturing Ecology competition highlight the complex relationships that shape ecosystems.

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

We drove up to the immigration booth and handed the officer our passports. After a short time he asked, “When was the last ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

"She had been in the lab and recognized how to identify fishes, and said that's something valuable that we have to preserve.” ...

Jim Christensen started taking photos when he was just 7 years old, capturing snapshots of the world through the lens of a ...