Animal teams at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute provide expert care for each of the Zoo’s residents every day of the year. But when heat indexes soar over 90 or even ...

Just like museums rely on curators to manage their collections, zoos depend on a team of skilled professionals to carefully monitor every animal in their care — recording births, breeding, behavioral ...

Surprisingly, genome comparisons have failed to resolve a major question in animal evolution: Which living animals are the descendants of the earliest animals to evolve in the world's oceans?

Exotic animals, farm animals, and domestic animals might not share many traits in common, but one thing that they all share is the fact that they exhibit stereotypic behaviors when in captivity. Let’s ...

Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

Arianna is a freelance writer and animal welfare advocate. She hopes to inspire others to... Arianna is a freelance writer and animal welfare advocate. She hopes to inspire others to make this world a ...

Although most pet owners consider companion animals to be beloved members of their family, some animals kept as pets sadly experience cruelty and neglect. Animal cruelty involves inflicting harm, ...

For more than a century, biologists have wondered what the earliest animals were like when they first arose in the ancient oceans over half a billion years ago. Searching among today’s most ...