Australia's native water rat. These long-whiskered rodents finally received the recognition they deserve, with the ABC's National Science Week poll crowning the rakali the nation's most underrated ...

You can talk to your vet to see if Maev is right for your dog. Naked mole-rats are not keeping their weirdness on the inside.

The Queen gets to tell everyone what to do, and she chooses a few males to breed with, we believe,” says Kerns. “However, she can have one of the largest litters of any mammals, over 30 babies at a ...

Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They play a crucial role for the animals, which have thick skin and ...

Evolution is usually a masterpiece of efficiency, but every once in a while, it feels like the natural world ran out of resources and had to finish a project using whatever leftovers were in the bin.

Here's my latest installment in my ongoing series, "Cute Animals You Should Know": the Northern Luzon cloud rat. The adorable ratty creature is endemic to the northern section of Luzon, the ...

Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and breathe. If you take a ...

Play is important for animals in captivity, both as an indicator of their emotional states and as a contributor to their long-term welfare.

Expressions that involve animals tend to stick in the mind, even when their meanings make zero sense at first. These phrases, scattered across different languages, reveal strange bits of culture, ...

It might be the first issue in recent memory that unites the commenters on wweek.com with the posters on Bluesky: Thanks, ...

An initiative petition in Oregon is gaining signatures to hopefully get voters to ban hunting, fishing, livestock slaughter, ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.