Few animal facts are repeated with more confidence or less nuance than the claim that penguins mate for life. It is offered ...

It might feel cold here right now, but spare a thought for a man who is spending three months in Antarctica, counting ...

Animals have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, taking micro naps during parenting, sleeping on the wing during ...

The San Francisco Zoo is mourning the loss of two unique animals after both were found to be deteriorating rapidly from ...

Eno was born in 1991 at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina and was the last of his kind at any zoo in North America, the ...

A visit to the Falkland Islands, where the fearless seabirds navigate the rugged topography with tenacious spunk, shows the ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very ...

It follows reports of potential attempts by seals to mate with members of different marine mammal groups, or that the seals were looking for a fight ...