From the iconic to the eccentric, here is a look at the most famous — and occasionally dangerous — celebrity animals to live ...

Uncertainty makes us uncomfortable. Yet the research is clear: It is essential for growth. The challenge isn’t eliminating ...

Early last December, Elaine and I were walking in the sunshine on a long sandy beach. A group of sanderlings scurried about at the water’s edge. A common tern flew by. On the rocks were turnstones and ...

OSTEEN, Fla. — In a trend on social media, people are showing off the pet monkeys they own, often to generate revenue for their animals. Owners are often forced to give up their monkeys because they ...

Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention ...

From spraying mates with urine to changing one's sex, these are the most intriguing courtships in the animal kingdom.

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their environments, providing insights into the evolution of the distinct upright postures ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

From finding out where swallows go in winter to discovering microbes here are 10 of the greatest biological discoveries ever ...