“Thronglets” was originally developed in the 1990s as experimental software by legendary Tuckersoft programmer Colin Ritman ( ...

Nintendo recently announced Tamagotchi Plaza, the latest in its iconic series, which may be of interest to Hello Kitty Island ...

Gotchi' combines an e-cigarette with a virtual pet that dies if you stop puffing.

If you're over 30, you may have been the childhood owner of a Tamagotchi, an electronic pet encased in a kind of plastic egg that served as a keychain, which all of us kids had in the mid-1990s, in a ...

Pet cloning is on the increase in China, as grieving owners turn to science to try to bring their furry friend back from the dead. An idea once "confined to the pages of science fiction", pet ...

Ms. Albrecht decided to do just that, forging an unlikely career as a lost-pet detective. Along the way, she has worked with researchers to study the behavior of missing cats and founded the ...

Earlier this month, we blogged that participants at a New York University (NYU) event called the "Stupid Hackathon" had created something remarkable: a vape-embedded Tamagotchi-style virtual pet ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. If your pet gets injured or sick, pet insurance helps cover medical expenses. What was once an obscure insurance product has been ...

Pet insurance helps you cover the cost of treatment when a pet is injured or ill. Insurers will also usually pay out if your pet dies, is lost or stolen or damages property. Lifetime policies are the ...

Where does that leave people with pets or backyard chickens? Scientific American spoke with experts about managing bird flu risks for animals and their owners. If you're enjoying this article ...

When pets first dropped in Whiteout Survival and my server unlocked them, I underestimated their value – and I wasn’t the only one doing so. A lot of players ignored the feature, but the savvy ones ...