After years of following them online, Li Jing finally met her spirit animal – the capybara — at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. "I first fell in love with capybaras when I saw their videos online.

What do animals know about death? It's a question Charles Darwin himself pondered. "Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion?" the biologist ...

MiOra, Los Angeles, California, USA. Your Editorial on animal research (Nature 631, 481; 2024) highlights the challenges in finding alternatives to the need for animal testing before moving ...

Scientists would like to go beyond these isolated scenes. They want to understand what feelings surge inside animals when they lose kin. They want to know whether animals are haunted by death ...

Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t exist. Although they share a lot of similarities, they have quite a few ...

Dozens of viruses have been detected mixing in animals at fur farms in China, some of which are new and have the potential to spill over into humans, researchers said on Wednesday (Sep 4).

In their experiments with mice, the researchers rubbed the water and dye solution onto the skin of the animals' skulls and abdomens. Once the dye had completely diffused into the skin, the skin ...

In this article, we will shed light on some of the animals facing the gravest risk of extinction this year, urging us to take action before these unique and irreplaceable species vanish forever. Once ...

The death of a beloved white beluga whale has turned into a mystery in Norway as animal rights groups speculate whether he was actually assassinated. The beluga, nicknamed Hvaldimir, rose to fame ...