According to the BBC, there are an estimated 8.7 million species of animals in the world. Experts believe some of these species will go extinct before they are able to be studied. It’s believed it ...

Many millions of animals in the world have hair and for some, it's essential to their survival as they need it for warmth. However, some animals have much more hair than others, including some we ...

Bestselling author Eliot Schrefer's new book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality is a winner in many different ways. Among the numerous accolades for this young ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act late last year, serving as a reminder of the 1,662 ...

If you've ever wished you could see the world though the eyes of another animal, we have good news for you. We also wondered about that and, being scientists who specialize in color vision, have ...

At its worst, a nonfiction science book about animal sexuality could read like a dry biology textbook. But that's not the kind of book Eliot Schrefer wrote. His book, called "Queer Ducks (And Other ...

Six photographers journey around the world in search of animal encounters. Drive around Iceland, and you’ll see them everywhere: stout little horses, with beauty-salon hairstyles, dotting one of the ...