ANIMALS

For Christmas dinner in 1870, Paris restaurant Voisin publicized a menu that featured kangaroo stew, elephant stock, stuffed donkey head, and bear chops.

Here’s the lowdown on everyone’s favorite vertically challenged dog.

Weighing just two to four pounds, the rusty spotted cat is the smallest wild cat on Earth.

The longhaired feline has a storied past—and a frenzied following.

The rabbits are frequently shown wielding weapons as they fight against—and sometimes kill—those who often hunted them.

With their angular faces, big ears, and smooth bodies, Sphynx cats are living (and purring) proof that there’s more to a kitty than its fur coat.

Pet advice from the Middle Ages included enough Latin incantations, unusual remedies, and bizarre superstitions to fill a Great Dane.

Sometimes animal poop does double (ahem) duty. 

A new study is proposing an innovative way to eradicate invasive murder hornets: literal thirst traps laced with pheromones.

You probably have or know at least one Labrador retriever, so you should get to know them better!

A new study suggests that some sharks do sleep, even though they appear to be wide-awake when they're catching up on theirs Zs.

Like most cat breeds, the Siamese’s true origins are cloaked in mystery.