Animals

Awards season may be over for human actors this year, but there’s no rest for some of nature’s most audacious…

Italy’s Ministry of Health has banned the popular wellness trend of “puppy yoga” amid concerns that the puppies used in the practice could be…

By Nell Lewis and John Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The largest apex predator in the tropical seas, tiger sharks are notoriously fierce. They can grow to…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Marine researchers on a mission to record life hidden in the world’s oceans have reported they found about 100…

A pair of orcas working in concert have been killing great whites along a stretch of South African coastline since at least 2017, plundering the…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A small species of fish that measures no more than half an inch in length is capable of producing sounds louder than…

Female leatherback turtles are among the world’s most intrepid creatures, making journeys as far as 10,000 miles after nesting to find food in…

Spiders spin silken webs to capture flies and other tiny…

At night, it’s not unusual to find a hoard of moths and other insects circling around a porch light or street lamp — but their reasons for being…

By Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN (CNN) — Trees are believed to have originated hundreds of millions of years ago. Ever since, evidence of these…

A six-legged dog found abandoned in a supermarket car park in Wales has undergone surgery to remove her extra…

Megalodons, the huge prehistoric sharks depicted in movies such as “The Meg,” had more slender bodies than was previously thought, according to a…

On the edge of a dark, suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer toad-catchers gather around Gary King as he shoves another squirming specimen…

The world’s “oldest ever dog” Bobi, who died in October reportedly aged 31, has provisionally lost his title as Guinness World Records (GWR)…

The largest ape on record stood almost 10 feet tall (3 meters) and weighed nearly twice as much as a…

Dinosaurs are all around us, figuratively and literally…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Long before the first sharks appeared, large predator worms were the “terror beasts” of the seas more…