Romeo, a West Indian manatee living at the Gulfarium, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest manatee ever recorded. Romeo is at least 71 years old; a manatee’s typical lifespan is ...

Source: Zimbabwe – our very own Animal Farm! It is terrifying but real. Tendai Ruben Mbofana ​The final scene of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is the most haunting in all of literature not because of ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A 65-year-old man and 61-year-old woman are charged with abandoning/cruelty to 25 or more animals, a seven-year felony, killing/torturing animals, a four-year felony, and failing to dispose of ...

When 9-year-old Yuvi Agarwal practiced piano, he noticed it instantly calmed his energetic goldendoodle puppy. Intrigued, he began playing music for anxious shelter animals, a move that would end up ...

Often dismissed as a stray, the Indian Pariah Dog is one of the world's oldest surviving canine lineages. Despite a 15,000-year history alongside humans, it still struggles to find acceptance and ...

During the Middle Ages, a devastating plague wiped out roughly one third of Europe's population. The disease spread through fleas that carried the ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

Woman opens up about not wanting her roommate's cat in common spaces, but Redditors believe that it is an unfair request.

6,000-year-old pottery reveals prehistoric humans cooked gourmet food with plants and fish, offering new insight into ancient ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...