We know they're smart, but there's still a lot we don't know.

Animals are no less emotional than we are.

The concern over pets developing autism from vaccines appears to be the latest issue within the anti-vaxxer movement.

What is emotion in humans? Do dogs also have emotions? And why would scientists tickle rats to understand the neural mechanisms of emotion? Jaap Panksepp, internationally renowned psychobiologist and emeritus from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Why we need to change how we talk about how animals grieve

Scientists in New Zealand say they found a USB stick of holiday snaps in a slab of frozen seal poo.

Larger dogs have better short-term memory and self-control than smaller breeds, according to research led by the UA's Arizona Canine Cognition Center.

What causes this phenomenon?

Scientists from The University of Manchester have found a way to trick the eye into thinking the world is brighter than it actually is.

Scientists discover how the marsupials are the only known species producing cube-shaped faeces.

The US government has decided to press ahead with controversial experiments on dogs, despite critics in congress and elsewhere attacking them as cruel and unnecessary. The department for veterans affairs (VA) has approved the continuation of the testing, which it says will help doctors find new ways to treat wounded soldiers, according to USA Today. Researchers running the experiments will remove sections of the dogs’ brains that control breathing, sever spinal cords to test cough reflexes and implant pacemakers before triggering abnormal heart rhythms. All the dogs involved will ultimately be euthanised.

Elephant birds, the largest known birds, were not daytime foragers as thought; rather, they were highly adapted for the night life.

Only birds have a special voice box — the syrinx — and it's what they use to sing. But what's so unique about the syrinx is that it's actually an evolutionary anomaly.

A comic about a glorious undersea creature.

Scientists have previously hypothesized that spots are conferred at random or that they are influenced by environmental factors.

Very comprehensive video of this misunderstood mammal.

Ant parasite turns host into ripe red berry, biologists discover

No one quite has this sex thing figured out, but these non-binary animals have some good ideas

Flesh-footed shearwater chicks are starving to death because of plastic, a BBC documentary reveals.

The canine clinical trial will vaccinate 800 healthy pets