Not all animals lie down to give birth. Discover the animals that give birth standing up and learn about the reasons for this ...

New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...

Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

Animals more likely to eat their young are those with faster reproductive cycles. “Species that have large broods might be ...

Many mammals deliver in minutes after long pregnancies. See which species have the quickest births to help newborns thrive.

A juvenile orange-fronted parakeet seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in California.

Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, ...

For some parents in Nepal, child-rearing involves competing to have their daughters selected and sequestered as living ...

Cancer is a common disease among mammals, but some species, such as the naked mole rat and elephants, have evolved resistance. According to new research published in the journal Science Advances, this ...

Everyone’s heard of blue whales and bottlenose dolphins. But have you ever heard of vaquitas? In the warm waters of the Gulf of California, off Mexico, there lives a tiny porpoise on the brink of ...