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Fri, Mar 08, 2013 9:24 AM
Video: Dominic the pig is being used by in England to help firefighters train in the art of how to handle escaped animals.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 4:16 PM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience
Scientists think the caffeine is affecting neurons in the bees' brains in a way that reinforces memories, and that it may have the same effect on humans.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 2:20 PM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience
About 15,000 blacktip sharks and spinner sharks are swarming in the shallow waters around Palm Beach County.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 12:18 PM by John Platt
The dama gazelle 'Little Tony' hops around a lot, just like the infomercial star.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 10:43 AM by John Platt
The U.S.-backed proposal was opposed by Canada, which is home to two-thirds of the world's polar bears.
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Thu, Mar 07, 2013 9:42 AM
Video: A male lion at a Central California animal park killed a 24-year-old female volunteer on Wednesday.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 3:07 PM by Bryan Nelson
A few animals take "reduce, reuse, recycle" to the next level. It's a good thing, too: Someone needs to help clean up the mess that so many humans leave behind.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 3:00 PM by Russell McLendon
Scientists have found tiny spikes on cicada wings that rupture and kill bacterial cells — a disease-fighting strategy that might also work in manmade materials.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 2:15 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
Marsupials lack a corpus callosum, and scientists theorize that this may influence the evolution of handedness.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 12:50 PM by Tia Ghose, LIveScience
Larger Pacific Striped Octopuses not only have color and shape changing abilities, they mate by pressing their beaks and suckers together.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 11:40 AM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer
Lion populations fenced into conservation areas rebounded in recent years, but lions in open preserves were challenged by prey loss and predation by humans.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 11:07 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
When stressed by the nearness of predators, tadpoles pump up their tails, allowing them to escape from danger quicker.
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Wed, Mar 06, 2013 9:55 AM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience
Analysis of the reptiles' evolutionary trees revealed the new species are related to caimans, South American relatives of alligators.
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Tue, Mar 05, 2013 2:56 PM by Charles Choi, LiveScience
The Falkland Islands wolf hopped ice floes in prehistoric times in order to become the only mammal on the islands that give it its name.
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Tue, Mar 05, 2013 1:22 PM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience
The fossil specimen closely resembles modern dromedary camels, based on the fingerprinting, but was about a third larger in size.