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Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be using it in a different way.

The official count, a legal requirement of the zoo's licence, saw more than 500 animals across 145 species totted up. A ...

No one thought cows could catch flu; herds in Idaho have been infected twice with this strain, setting up worry that the ...

Did you know that some animals hire nannies? No, they don't pay other animals to raise their kids, but some animals--like an ...

Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving ...

Bird flu has now hit close to home; late last month, birds at Rose Acre Farms in Spencer, Indiana, 40 miles east of Bloomington, tested positive for the bird flu. According to the Indiana State Board ...

CHICAGO — The Shedd Aquarium announced that the baby beluga whale born last summer is a boy and they are holding a vote for ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.