A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, ...

Pumas in Patagonia, Argentina are eating penguins in a national park — and it's changing how the big cats are interacting with each other. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Video: Joining “Chicago Tonight” on Dec. 9, 2025, is Seth Magle, director of the Urban Wildlife Institute at Lincoln Park Zoo. (Produced by Joel Ortiz) In Chicago’s war on rats, it looks like feral ...

Ash-har Quraishi is a consumer correspondent based in Chicago. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of local, national, international and investigative reporting experience.

As many cat owners will testify, their pets are often mysterious creatures, independent, cunning and sometimes aloof. And now it appears that when it comes to communication, they might be playing ...

GLP-1 drugs for pets could be the next frontier for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs. By Emily Anthes In just a few short years, new diabetes and weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy ...

When Amberlee Dressler talks about cats, her voice carries the calm assurance of someone who’s spent decades caring for them — and the urgency of someone who knows there’s still much more to do.

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A new study describes a key molecular mechanism that explains how cells exchange information through extracellular vesicles (EVs), small particles with great therapeutic potential. The results, ...