A Loxahatchee dog owner is warning others after her dogs fell ill from botulism, a rare neurological disease, after eating a ...

Often dismissed as pests, opossums are among the most misunderstood mammals in North America. When threatened, they don’t choose to “play dead” — they involuntarily enter a stress-induced comatose ...

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Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

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Allie has been dry-wretching for 24 hours, and her owner fears the worst - maybe a swallowed needle or thread. The vet can’t fully examine her at first because she’s stressed, so sedation becomes the ...

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Content warning: This article reports on violence against endangered animals. Critically endangered animals are being advertised for sale as bushmeat on TikTok, a new study finds. The work, published ...

Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic end up in oceans across the world. Unable to distinguish that trash from natural food sources, many marine animals end up ingesting it. While ...