New research finds that turtles in the wild age slowly and have long lifespans, and identifies several species that essentially don't age at all.

At 190 years old, Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise recently made news for being the “oldest living land animal in the world.” Although, anecdotal evidence like this exists that some species of turtles and other ectotherms — or ‘cold-blooded’ animals — live a long time, evidence is spotty and mostly focused on animals living in zoos or a few individuals living in the wild.

If we can’t dramatically cut meat consumption then intensive ‘factory farming’ may be comparatively less risky, say authors

How we speak matters to animals. Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their own species, near relatives and humans.

In the province of Safi in Morocco, Hossein adopted Jnah, a Sloughi which is his only weapon. For a year, the boss has been looking for a male worthy of his princess: Zia, the Sloughia, who is now old enough to bear babies. He will therefore organize a great hunt in order to choose the best Sloughi.

Meet the footballing bees, optimistic pigs and alien-like octopuses that are shaking up how we think about minds

Some animal neuropeptides have been around longer than nervous systems.

In a recent study published in the scientific journal of Neuroscience, a group of scientists regale their journey to try and use CRISPR gene editing technology to bio-engineer an extra-friendly...

Some could be lost forever, while others could live in areas difficult to reach

She has four limbs, expressive eyes and likes to stroll through greenery in New York City. Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But can she also be considered a person? That question was before New York’s highest court Wednesday in a closely watched case over whether a basic human right can be extended to an animal.

Number of social connections predicts the volume of brain structures in monkeys.

Things looked bleak for Buddy. The Philly street cat was the victim of a brutal attack a month ago. Captured on video, it was shocking even by this tough town’s standards. The odds of him making it weren’t good.

An expedition to the forests of Louisiana say extinction of bird, last definitively seen in 1944, has been exaggerated

In the 1500s, the Catholic Church classified the capybara as a fish, so its meat could be eaten on Fridays during Lent. If you’re not familiar with the capybara, it is the largest rodent in the world and certainly not a fish.

Children think farm animals deserve to be treated as well as human beings but lose this belief in adolescence, a groundbreaking study has found. Researchers from the universities of Exeter and Oxford asked a group of British children aged nine to 11, young adults aged 18 to 21 and older men and women about their attitudes to different sorts of animals.

Yes, that was a kookaburra at the start of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. But WHY?  Podcast

Meet the young couple living in one of the most-remote areas in Australia, all in the name of helping to bring our endangered animals back from the brink of extinction.

For 80 years, foods and perfumes have contained castoreum, an anal secretion beavers use to mark their territories, which smells like vanilla.

This disparity gets at the difference between one’s chronological age — how old they are in years — and their biological age, which is how their body has aged naturally and in response to its environment. The two can diverge in ways that are either blessings or curses. Hence why those who grow up under extreme stress or in polluted environments may look much older than they actually are.

Hill’s horseshoe bat, which conservationists feared was extinct, discovered clinging to life in Nyungwe rainforest