Families who participate in Texas’ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and Women, Infants, and Children programs can ...

The new nature docuseries "Born to Be Wild" follows six rare baby animals and captures what their lives turn out to be like.

And, researchers have just discovered, ancient bees would use the bones’ empty tooth sockets as nests. A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents this discovery, which ...

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 ...

The sea otter pup was tiny, probably less than 2 weeks old, alone in Morro Bay on an October morning earlier this year. A ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The Standoff That Brought the Big Ten’s $2.4 Billion Deal to a Screeching Halt Pilot who tried to cut engines mid-flight avoids prison time Costs more than double to rebuild vital Baltimore bridge ...