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 ...

When Marcella Johnson’s son passed away shortly after childbirth more than twenty years ago, she was overcome with a host of emotions that she didn’t know how to control. From grief to anger ...

Here are some of the best weighted stuffed animals and weighted teddy bears ... The entire toy is microwavable, say, if you want a warm companion to hold onto before bed, or to soothe an upset ...

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 ...

Thankfully, the patient has recovered, but they are the 14th person to fall ill with bird flu in the US this year, and the first patient with "no immediate known animal exposure", according to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A beluga whale suspected of being a Russian spy found dead off the Norwegian coast was shot, animal rights activists have claimed. The body of the otherwise healthy and relatively young animal ...

"It's very gratifying to know that one of the world's most critically endangered animals is doing well and breeding within the safety of the fenced area," Howe said in a statement. Based on the ...

According to a statement from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), the mystery animal measures 5 centimeters long and 2.7 centimeters tall. It is made from yellow-brown ...