Animals

No one knows how consciousness works in the brain, but a team of neuroscientists seems to have found an engine that keeps it going.

Photos of a bright pink manta ray have gone viral after the Pepto-Bismol-colored creature was spotted swimming near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Scientists studying Madagascar's aye-aye just discovered a sixth tiny digit called a pseudothumb on each of its hands.

The water surrounding upside-down jellyfish often stings to the touch, and now scientists know why.

Why did these male turtles have horned shells? Likely to protect their heads during fierce combat, a study finds.

The epic photo 'station squabble,' which shows two mice grappling over a scrap of food, has won the people's choice award for London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The DNA in the woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island had a number of unfavorable variants.

Lightning strikes kill wild animals relatively often, but the deaths of four rare gorillas represent a huge loss for the species.

This fearsome carnivore lived 12 million years before its cousin Tyrannosaurus rex.

In today's episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look at some of the mysteries surrounding one of our closest animal companions: dogs.

Harley Quinn has a hyena friend in the movie "Birds of Prey," but even without supervillain sidekicks, hyenas are super-awesome.

A group of sharks writhing in shallow water may have looked like they were beached, but they weren't injured or in distress.

A newfound species of thalattosaur, a Triassic marine reptile, had a dramatically pointy skull unlike any seen in reptiles alive today.

The braying songs of African 'jackass' penguins follow two extremely common rules of human language, a new study confirms.

In this episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look at one of the most puzzling animals on our planet, and one that you may share your home with: cats.

Unique footage of a gray seal clapping underwater reveals a new way the animals communicate underwater … and is super cute.

Scientists recently discovered 183 million-year-old dinosaur footprints on a South African farm.