They freeze in mid-air and crash to the ground, which is risky but effective. The post Why Some Animals Fake Death — and What it Means appeared first on A-Z Animals.

However, the condition is transient and, when whatever triggered it has gone, the animal will recover. Let’s look at some animals that use it to great effect and examine the reasons why they do it.

Watch: How zoo animals stayed cool during the summer heat dome On average, July 26 is the warmest day around the country. Besides air conditioning, zookeepers turn to water, ice and other cool treats ...

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We have identified an optimized peptide inhibitor that can be used to develop potent anthrax toxin therapeutics. Anthrax toxin, an essential virulence factor of Bacillus anthracis, elicits many of the ...

Kids watch an armadillo run around the Anna Library on Friday. Indiana Wild owner Beth Wood brought an assortment of animals to the Anna Library for kids to pet and learn about.

Animal Farm doesn't reach the heights of its source material, but it offers a fun family-friendly animated movie with a great voice cast.

Some animals just don’t know how to control their body odor! Whether it’s caused by hormones, scent glands, or just plain dirtiness, the 10 pungent animals you will witness in the following video have ...

On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind ...

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...