Jay Ingram's "The Science of Pets" is a must-read about facts and myths about a global "petpourri" of animals, what's in ...

Kenyans are mourning the death of a beloved "super tusker" elephant named Craig. He lived in Amboseli National Park and ...

While real life elephants can’t fly, they certainly have enormous ears. The African elephant, for instance, has the largest ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

The Memphis Zoo's latest conservation effort is well underway in Sri Lanka. The effort seeks to keep animals safe and to root ...

Filmmaker Bertie Gregory's new documentary special captures the extreme challenges facing the world's fastest land animal.

"His small trunk and ears were free, but his rear-end was stuck fast in dark, oozing mud. He looked exhausted and must have ...

Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying information. The Australian marsupial communicates by … there's no delicate ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

A Milwaukee County Zoo elephant that tripped on a log in her outdoor habitat and fell is back up again, according to a zoo spokesperson. Aggressive behavior from a herdmate caused Ruth the elephant to ...

The world is connected in surprising ways. A new study gives the latest example - how African elephant poop helps make American-made guitars. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, the study also comes with a ...