A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where many of the first cases of the disease were identified. The paper ...

Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo Basin include dicynodont skulls with tusks that curve down and back, like those of the long-bodied animal depicted in roughly 200-year-old rock ...

In the 2nd century C.E., unknown authors compiled a Christian encyclopedia of animals called the Physiologus, an illustrated book containing drawings and descriptions of various beasts. This early ...

After years of following them online, Li Jing finally met her spirit animal – the capybara — at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. "I first fell in love with capybaras when I saw their videos online.

If you haven’t given it much thought, you probably think non-human animals see the world the same way we do. The truth is the world looks very different to most other animals than it does to us. Most ...

What do animals know about death? It's a question Charles Darwin himself pondered. "Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion?" the biologist ...