ANIMALS

The unusual creature is the most-trafficked animal on Earth.

When it comes to distinguishing useful instructions from pointless ones, dogs are faster learners than human children.

Beagles who sought out human interaction in a laboratory study showed more activation in certain genomic regions.

Don't try this at home.

If these long-lost animals could talk, they’d have quite a story to tell.

Pigeons are like urban canaries in a coal mine. But they're not the only ones cluing us in.

They don't actually come from outer space, although they look like it.

Cats have been using humans for thousands of years.

A new study suggests we could someday borrow the tardigrade’s resilience to use in our own flimsy bodies.

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The rare ‘Alalā species is only the second known crow species to use tools.

A much-hyped new paper claims to have found evidence of human-like speech patterns in bottlenose dolphins, but other researchers are skeptical, to say the least.