A new study suggests that giant bears, sloths, and saber-toothed cats died because warming temperatures cocked the gun, and people pulled the trigger.
Adolescent tyrannosaurs’ lean bodies may have given them hunting skills that allowed them to avoid competition with their beefier elders.
But modern farms deprive them of meaningful companionship.
Ecologists are starting to better understand just how bad barbed wire is for wildlife.
The idea of the turkey as a dimwit capable of drowning in a rainstorm is a myth. If you learn where that white meat comes from, you might find a smart and social companion.
Pity the musk ox.
A new study finds that large herbivores have the same impact on plant diversity whether they’re native or introduced.
Our author finds Jeffrey Masson's “divertingly amateurish” style likely to broaden the audience for the animal-rights movement in a way that Peter Singer and Matthew Scully never could
The once-endangered species made the fastest recovery ever recorded for a mammal—but first, conservationists had to kill some pigs and relocate some eagles.
Since the 1800s, paleoartists have tried to imagine what prehistoric creatures looked like—with wildly different results.