Most people don’t know what noise a peacock makes. I didn’t, until I got a job at the zoo last summer. The cool thing about the San Diego Zoo is it doesn’t cage its peacocks. Instead, the six or seven ...

See how the city's residents sought out chinampas, human-built islands that once fed several hundred thousand people, for sustenance and solace during COVID-19. Dario Velasco plants Creole corn on his ...

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This towering Great Dane and his pint-sized Chihuahua brother may be two wildly different dogs, but they have formed an ...

Sometimes, however, the reasons dogs and cats seem to be seeing ghosts might be rather mundane.

The remains of nearly 200 animals found in Mexico’s ancient city-state of Teotihuacán are helping reconstruct history. These animal bones were unearthed in four chambers within the Moon Pyramid and ...

Depictions on fabric of La Malinche and Hernan Cortes from the 16th century Tlaxcala Codex in Mexico City (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Women in Mexico are buying chinampas, ancient Aztec island farms, to preserve a threatened ecosystem through ...

Spanish police on Saturday said they made an arrest after finding 250 dead animals, mostly dogs, in a filthy warehouse that local media dubbed "the breeding ground of horror." The Civil Guard said the ...

WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — A Waterbury man and woman are facing animal cruelty charges after police said they found 21 dead animals and 17 animals inside a trailer and an adjacent school bus. Johann ...

Ms. Blum is the author of “The Monkey Wars,” a book about ethical issues in animal research. Early in my career as a science journalist, I visited a primate research laboratory that was running an ...