A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in ...

A herd of African elephants instinctively formed an "alert circle" to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday.

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

It’s true, though rare: in Florida, where Burmese pythons are an invasive species, they’ve been known to eat alligators. In 2022, for instance, scientists dissected an 18-foot Burmese python that had ...

Like all nonnative reptile species, green iguanas aren't protected in Florida except by anti-cruelty law and can be humanely ...

In the creepy crawly world of spiders, this gargantuan South American arachnid cousin has a set of fangs that would make ...