San Antonio highways have seen their fair share of chaos-from soaring mattresses to sky-high lumber hauls. But this month, ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law a bill that prohibits the use of elephants, bears, wild cats and nonhuman primates in ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Turns out that lying down to catch some Zs is not universal. Some animals skip the whole “horizontal nap” deal and snooze ...

Birds fighting for nesting spots show repeated aggression and shared brain gene patterns, suggesting evolution may repeat.

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

At the 151st Kentucky Derby, a global spotlight will shine on equine athleticism. It’s the subject of a growing body of ...

Researchers have studied zebrafish behavior to design a simple control system that helps robots follow a leader without crashing.

Fish are masters of coordinated motion. Schools of fish have no leader, yet individuals manage to stay in formation, avoid collisions, and respond with liquid flexibility to changes in their ...

Some animals absolutely love eating mushrooms in the wild. Some others eat mushrooms only occasionally, perhaps when they cannot find more desirable foods. Eating mushrooms can be a tricky business, ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...