Would you dig through animal excrement if you knew you would find a diamond? Wildlife researchers at the University of Oxford ...

Can Animals Have Mental Disabilities? Mental health issues aren’t exclusive to humans—animals can experience them too. From ...

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

Most importantly, individual hormone levels can change in relation to health, environment and social dynamics with other animals in their habitat. But why poop? Similar tests are usually conducted by ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...

The telltale sign? Bird poop. That’s what researchers at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences theorize after studying the movements of krill trawled from Antarctica’s Bransfield Strait.

Dogs, especially puppies, eat many things they shouldn't, and this often includes feces — theirs and that of other dogs and even other animals. Gross as it may seem, dogs eating poop is pretty ...

These solitary, aggressive animals are famous for their ferocious punch—as fast as a bullet and strong enough to snap a crab’s claw. Mantis shrimp live in warm, shallow waters in the Indian ...