Study tests public support for bringing back species after 500-year absence, while farmers fear for sheep

Dogs and humans have a special connection; afterall they are called a man's best friend. Many dogs have specialised training to help the ill or the injured and even non-trained dogs seem to sense whenever their owners are unhappy. However, one particular dog’s sympathy for his owner resulted in a big financial hiccup for his dad.

The world's largest animals are unusually good at taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Animal shelters in the Washington region are experiencing a unique problem: As the coronavirus pandemic has kept more residents at home, it has created such a high demand for adopting dogs that the supply is increasingly limited.

The first complete map of a platypus genome has just been released, and it's every bit as strange as you'd expect from a creature with 10 sex chromosomes, a pair of venomous spurs, a coat of fluorescent fur, and skin that 'sweats' milk.

Octopuses are vulnerable, like a snail without a shell, so they have to really use their wits to stay alive in the dangerous ocean.

A living member of species of tortoise not seen in more than 110 years and feared to be extinct has been found in a remote part of the Galápagos island of Fernandina. An adult female Chelonoidis phantasticus, also known as the Fernandina giant tortoise, was spotted on Sunday by a joint expedition of the Galápagos National Park and the US-based Galapagos Conservancy, Ecuador’s environment ministry said.

The whales in the group seem to sing a unique song.

Juvenile ravens performed just as well as chimps and orangutans on a battery of intelligence tests—except for spatial skills. Christopher Intagliata reports.

In the gold-brown mountains around Weaverville, N.C., there's a dormitory filled with dysfunctional and depressed dogs. It's part of the ASPCA's Behavioral Rehabilitation Center, a cutting-edge program designed specifically to teach traumatized canines to be trustful human companions.

I'm one of a small number of Australians with a potentially deadly allergy to red meat. And it's all thanks to a creature as small as a grain of sand, writes Menios Constantinou.

The last thing Carrot the deer probably wanted in 2020 was a hole in his head. But the Canadian whitetail deer which made headlines last week for his shocking injury no longer has an arrow impaling his head. “What he’s gone through in the last few weeks – from a bolt through his head to having it removed and enduring the bitter winter … I can’t imagine another animal surviving,” said Lee-Anne Carver, a wildlife photographer who has documented the deer’s unlikely story.

A baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after it was revived by an off-duty rescue worker. Mana Srivate told Reuters news agency he had performed dozens of resuscitation attempts in his career - but never before on an elephant.

Animals that have never been domesticated, such as kangaroos, can intentionally communicate with humans, challenging the notion that this behavior is usually restricted to domesticated animals like dogs, horses or goats, according to a first-of-its-kind study from the University of Roehampton and the University of Sydney.

Study shows animals with no long history of domestication show patterns of interaction with humans similar to that of dogs or horses

The National Trust says the dam in Somerset "might look modest, but it is incredibly special".

The werewolf mouse

The gray mouse took advantage of the sedentarization of the first human population, 15,000 years ago, to spread around the world., science,biology,AFP

Big Agriculture’s artificial insemination is abusive. Most states have rewritten old laws to absolve it—but some haven’t.

"If you have several thousand hogs packed in together and they're all genetically largely the same, that selects for the most virulent pathogens."