An 89-year-old giant tortoise is among the animals keeping cool at Cotswold Wildlife Park. Keepers are using a range of methods to help animals, including George, cope with the soaring temperatures.

Cabo Froward sits at the “southernmost point” of South America; it’s a rugged and largely unexplored region slated to become a national park, Rewilding Chile said in a July 9 Instagram post. As part ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

The elusive “pinkish” species from Brazil, normally found wandering on trees, is already being targeted by the pet trade for ...

The size of the planned new animal shelter in Davis County, long a focus of debate, will be scaled back due to the rising ...

The size of the planned new animal shelter in Davis County, long a focus of debate, will be scaled back due to the rising ...

Three new frog species have recently been discovered in the Cordillera de Huancabamba, a mountainous region in Northwestern Peru. The species are Pristimantis chinguelas, P. nunezcortezi, and P. yonke ...

I haven’t been to the Gallup flea market in over 15 years. Not since I was about nine getting dragged around in the dust, trying not to melt into the ground, fighting my sister over nonsense, getting ...

A drug that targets two parts of the deadly Nipah virus protects against infection in hamsters. And once an animal is ...

The stout, shaggy-coated huemul deer is highly endangered in the southern hemisphere. But a recent helicopter mission ...

While millions of Americans swelter under heat warnings from the National Weather Service, new research finds that not only will climate change make heat waves hotter and longer, but the lengthening ...