Kids love animals -- and they love books about animals, too. From dog books to bear books to bunny books and pig books, our list of favorite animal "tails" is full of great picks. Some have funny, ...

Kids love animals -- and they love TV shows about (or starring!) animals almost as much. Whether your kid likes animated animals or the real deal, these wild series will educate, entertain, and ...

Have you ever seen an animal with Blue Blood? While this may sound unusual, animals with blue blood do exist. While most vertebrates, including humans, have red blood cells due to hemoglobin ...

Depends on who you ask, as Colossal's Beth Shapiro argued to New Scientist: "We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal." ...

KATHY HANLON didn’t mess around when she heard that the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was planning a slumber party with the shelter’s animals and needed ...

The scales weigh between 33%-35% of the animal’s total body weight ... Larger individuals are typically found in wetter environments while smaller animals have been observed in semi-arid habitats. One ...

However, these North American terrestrial mollusks engage in one of the most unusual and dramatic mating rituals in the animal kingdom — one that sometimes ... with what Heath described as “vicious ...

Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner ... Stuffed animals “struck a chord with young adults and ...

But what about animals? From the limited research conducted so far ... If you see a sheep lying down, it is probably in REM sleep. As a prey animal, sheep are very vulnerable in this state and so that ...

Nature is a realm of endless wonder and fierce competition. While many animals coexist peacefully, there are times when survival instincts lead to jaw-dropping confrontations. These animal battles ...

The Portsmouth Animal Control officer received said they received a complaint for two dogs not receiving sufficient treatment. Detectives executed a search warrant and found one of the dogs in ...

Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious ... Ark if I documented all the baby animals. Still, the keepers pressed on, so ...