We all have at least one friend that treats their dog like an actual human child. Scientists think you shouldn't be a hater: ...

Dogs, cats, birds, rabbits—none of them ended up in our homes by chance. Their stories stretch across continents and millennia.

Airedale Terriers make the perfect family dogs for the right families because they're protective, loyal, and incredibly active!

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

A new federally funded study of wild eastern chimpanzees in Gombe National Park reveals that female chimps who are more ...

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In memory of their own rescue dog, a Derby family raised thousands of dollars for the Shelton Animal Shelter over the weekend.

Rejected by his mother, a rare horse foal finds a new mom in grieving domestic mare The endangered foal's future looked grim until a pony who’d recently lost her newborn accepted him as her own.

Hopefully this furry family took a good look at the refund policy. A delightful video shows deputies rescuing a raccoon family from inside a wood-burning stove in Colorado just after the mother ...

But here's the twist: civets and mongooses are not the same animal, and they aren’t even in the same animal family.