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Mammals across the Midwest are doing their best to stay cool during the heat wave, with some help from humans.

We project a great deal onto animals. They are elevated into ideals of love and fidelity (dogs, horses), and often they are reduced to objects and tools (cattle, pigs, horses again). Much of ...

I receive versions of the following questions every spring and summer as people begin to have more interactions with our native wildlife.

For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient vertebrates that started conquering the land over 300 million years ago, developed like modern amphibians—beginning their lives as purely ...

When you’re talking about history, you don’t usually think of famous animals. But a few creatures actually did change the course of history, some in unexpected, even weird ways. A lioness raised like ...

All animals–from corgis to Greenland sharks, from dog ticks to toucans to you–descend from a common ancestor. The fossil record of animals, which runs back over 600 million years, can help us travel ...

Beaumont Animal Care seized 42 animals from a home after reports of potential cruelty due to unsafe conditions.

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in ...