The first high-quality Australian dingo genome gives a multi-thousand-year-old snapshot into the evolutionary history of dogs.

A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually.

Cichlid and stingray fish species can perform simple calculations in numbers ranging from one to five, a study stated. Researchers trained them to perform simple additions and substractions by increasing and decreasing an initial value by one. They can also be trained to detect smaller quantities without even counting. It, however, is not known what these fish need their mathematical abilities for.

How adoptable animals became a cultural phenomenon in their own right, and a key part of a transformation of companion-animal welfare.

The world’s first commercial octopus farm is closer to becoming reality - but scientists are up in arms.

As human populations expand into what was once the territory of wild animals, we've drastically altered their natural environment and living conditions. The dilemma of how we should consider and treat wild animals, has never been more difficult than it is right now. So how much should we intervene?

Lani Malmberg travels with a few hundred goats, which eat the tall brush and grasses that power Western wildfires.

Western lowland gorillas are believed to have caught the virus from a zookeeper

Researchers observe animals raising arms in direction of thrower or ducking in anticipation

You’re not imagining it: Your dog loves looking deeply into your eyes while you smile just as much as you love your pup’s sweet doggie grin. It’s clearly a mutual admiration between the two of you, but it’s also science.

An analysis of footage of octopuses off the coast of Australia “throwing” shells and silt suggests that they intentionally target – and often hit – other octopuses. In most cases, it is females that do the throwing, often at males that are harassing them. In 2015, Peter Godfrey-Smith at the University of Sydney and his colleagues filmed several common Sydney octopuses (Octopus tetricus) interacting at a site in Jervis Bay dubbed “Octopolis”. It is one of the few places in the otherwise sandy sea bottom where octopuses can make dens, so there are an unusual number of the animals in a small area.

Scientists who systematically eavesdropped on bat roosts in Costa Rica have discovered baby-bat babbling bears a striking resemblance to that of human infants. The bats produce rhythmic sounds and repeat key "building-block syllables". And this suggests - just like in human infants - their babbling lays the foundations for communication.

Yale researchers observing the brains of closed-eyed baby mice found waves that help explain why mammals can navigate their environment so soon after birth.

Dogs tend to ignore suggestions from people who are lying, hinting that – unlike human infants and some other primates – they might recognise when a person is being deceptive

‘They grow bigger than you think and contribute to poor water quality by mucking up the bottom sediments and uprooting plants,’ warns Minnesota town

Puppies outpace wolf pups at engaging with humans, even with less exposure to people, supporting the idea that domestication has wired dogs’ brains.

Now that the number of pandas in the wild has reached 1,800, Chinese officials have reclassified them as "vulnerable."

Bird populations have declined so drastically that this year, there are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than there were in 1970.

A whale shark, rare corals, and a transparent octopus are just some of the animals researchers found in the depths of the Pacific.

Letter: Dr Lynne Sneddon, who was the first to identify the existence of nociceptors in a fish, on the latest research in her field