Okidi, the giraffe calf, was born at the Detroit Zoo on Nov. 23, 2025. The baby animal died in Feb. 2026 after an accident ...

Two endangered Amur leopard cubs were born at Utah’s Hogle Zoo, and guests may be able to see them later this summer.The cubs ...

Okidi, a giraffe calf born at the Detroit Zoo in November, died after sustaining a severe vertebral injury in her habitat.

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it ...

Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

Oakland Zoo officials announced this week that they have euthanized an ailing male giraffe named Tsavo. The reticulated ...

Welfare advocates were left underwhelmed by San Jose’s response to a demand letter calling for improvements to its animal ...

Welfare advocates were left underwhelmed by San Jose’s response to a demand letter calling for improvements to its animal ...

In humans, chronic high blood pressure forces the heart to work too hard. The muscle of the left ventricle thickens in defense, a condition called hypertrophy. Eventually, this leads to fibrosis, ...

But this extreme feature comes at a cost: namely the energy required for the heart to pump blood up to the head against gravity. As a result, giraffes have high blood pressure, more than twice that of ...