Latest about Animals
Stunning video shows sharks devouring sea urchins, spines and all
Sharks easily consumed large, spiky sea urchins – sometimes in just a few gulps.
Alligator gar: The 'living fossil' that has barely evolved for 100 million years
This living fossil can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it survived predatory dinosaurs.
'The simplicity of life just hits you': Watch rare footage of critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla feeding her baby in the wild
Filmmakers captured a mother eastern lowland gorilla nursing her infant for the PBS show "Silverback."
32,000-year-old mummified woolly rhino half-eaten by predators unearthed in Siberia
Researchers found the carcass in August 2020 in Russia's Sakha Republic, and the discovery has revealed a never-before-seen characteristic of woolly rhinos: a fatty hump on the animal's back.
Which animal can have the most babies at one time?
How many offspring an animal can have depends on many factors, such as whether they're aquatic and how they get around.
Siphonophores: The clonal colonies that can grow longer than a blue whale
Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — despite being genetically identical.
Watch extremely rare footage of a bigfin squid 'walking' on long, spindly arms deep in the South Pacific
While exploring the Tonga Trench in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, researchers captured extremely rare footage of a Magnapinna squid with arms several times the length of its body.
Pollen allergies drove woolly mammoths to extinction, study claims
A boom in vegetation at the end of the last ice age may have created so much pollen, it blocked mammoths' sense of smell. A new study suggests this drove the beasts to extinction, but not everyone agrees.
32 of the world's smartest animals
Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.
How did sharks become Earth's 'ultimate survivors'? Paleontologist John Long finds answers in new book 'The Secret History of Sharks'
"The Secret History of Sharks" author John Long met with Live Science to discuss his new book, recent revelations about megalodons, and how he got over his fear of great whites.
