Having recovered from extinction in Sweden and Norway, the gray wolf's future is now threatened by political backlash as rural communities lobby for relaxed protections for the predator.
A bizarre fossil found in Australia suggests that baleen whales weren't always gentle giants—an ancient ancestor with sharp serrated teeth likely hunted sharks and other fish.
A proposed pair of tournaments that involves shooting deer with tranquilizers instead of bullets has animal-welfare groups and pro-hunting leagues up in arms.
A new study shows that 46 percent of U.S. rabies cases are caused by bats—15 percent more than the amount attributed to dogs—and August is peak season for rabid-bat infections.
Thousands of snakes are shipped by air every week in the U.S. We ask the experts how they keep this creepy cargo from re-creating the mayhem of the new movie Snakes on a Plane.
Young sac-winged bats make long strings of adultlike noises to train their vocal muscles and practice putting together sounds, scientists say. With audio
Join the world's fastest serpent—the deadly black mamba, whose venom can kill a human in just 15 minutes—as it zips through the African wilderness in search of its next meal.
Do elephants mourn? This new sequence of photos, showing a matriarch's death and the reactions of other elephants, has helped scientists better grasp the animals' behavior. Warning: graphic images.
