Animals Archive
04 April 2013, 02:53 PM ET
Images of the cutest grass-eating rodents you'll ever see.
04 April 2013, 01:26 PM ET
A new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service program trains dogs to smell smuggled wildlife parts.
04 April 2013, 12:00 PM ET
Researchers discover how bees learn from other bees.
04 April 2013, 11:27 AM ET
The cub is settling in nicely at the Alaska Zoo.
04 April 2013, 11:16 AM ET
This is video of a live Cthulhu macrofasciculumque, a newly discovered microbe that lives in the bellies of termites. Scientists named the tiny protist after H.P. Lovecraft’s monster Cthulhu because of its tentacle-headed appearance.
04 April 2013, 11:11 AM ET
Because of their tentacle-headed appearance, the newly discovered microbes were named after Cthulhu and Cthylla.
04 April 2013, 10:48 AM ET
In a world first, Australian researchers utilized acoustic technology to find, track, and study blue whales near Antarctica. During their seven week voyage the team collected 57 photo identifications, 23 biopsy samples, and tagged two whales.
04 April 2013, 10:29 AM ET
The copycat behavior may be a sign of empathy in these primates.
04 April 2013, 10:27 AM ET
Two new species of strange-looking microbes were baptized Cthulhu and Cthylla.
03 April 2013, 05:05 PM ET
Dragonfly festivals are popping up and wildlife refuges are giving tours.
03 April 2013, 05:00 PM ET
Without old weapons, the long-ago presence of two sharks in the central Pacific would have been unknown.
03 April 2013, 12:26 PM ET
Duck penises and vaginas are worth studying, researcher argues.
03 April 2013, 10:24 AM ET
Sickly, emaciated sea lion pups have been turning up on California's coastline in unusually high numbers since January.
02 April 2013, 10:34 AM ET
After an 80-year hiatus, black bears have made a sometimes messy return to their historic habitat in Nevada.
02 April 2013, 10:13 AM ET
Dancing may come naturally to (some) humans, but it doesn't quite have a parallel in the animal kingdom. A sea lion named Ronan is the first non-human mammal to show she can move to the rhythm of a song.
02 April 2013, 09:59 AM ET
A California sea lion named Ronan may be the first non-human mammal to bop to the rhythm of a song.
02 April 2013, 07:00 AM ET
The familiar Triops species is much younger than the fossils they resemble.
01 April 2013, 05:32 PM ET
Dinosaur-killing extinction event also clobbered deep-sea life, study suggests.
01 April 2013, 04:15 PM ET
Beloved by New Yorkers, she was the subject of 2 books.
01 April 2013, 01:08 PM ET
A standoff between two cougars and five coyotes was caught on camera.
01 April 2013, 12:39 PM ET
Deceptive perch species can mask its proximity from potential targets.
01 April 2013, 11:59 AM ET
A male fruit bat (P. giganteus) approaches a female, performs oral sex and copulates with her before performing oral sex again.
01 April 2013, 11:48 AM ET
Bats show a surprising range of sexual behavior.
29 March 2013, 05:41 PM ET
Big cats prowl close to humans in a densely populated Indian state.
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