Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, became the first living creature to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957. Her one-way mission ...

The “dairy barn of the future” is rethinking animal welfare, technology, and transparency - giving cows the freedom to choose ...

A zebra and an ostrich will be future members of the mixed-species habitat in Zoo Atlanta’s African Savanna. Zoo Atlanta ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens.

New research has found that even Australia's most protected marine habitats are likely to suffer extreme ocean impacts by ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

Some experts believe that we're already in a sixth mass extinction event, but given the numbers, others aren't so sure.

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

If the natural world is armed with viruses that can take us down wholesale, we have weapons that can do that too – in seconds – and take down every standing structure on the planet too. We are trying ...

The first humans didn’t walk into cities or civilizations—they faced shifting climates, fierce predators, and raw survival. This is the world our earliest ancestors called home. Don’t expect correct ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Recent studies increasingly support the notion that life and consciousness are inherently linked. Several emerging theories provide ...