Book of the Week. A selection of ten of the 100 animals that Simon Barnes says have had the greatest impact on humanity and on which humanity has had the greatest effect.

The earliest use of bright colors in animals served as a warning system, a strategy seen in venomous snakes and poison dart frogs.

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

LARGO, Fla. — Nearly 100 animals are set to make a 14-hour journey from Tampa Bay to Houston. The move will help open space at SPCA Tampa Bay amid more animals arriving after Hurricane Milton.

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...

But hundreds of animals are now also displaced in the southeast. On Wednesday, Wisconsin animal shelters stepped in to lighten their load. One-hundred and thirty animals from South Carolina have ...

Animals are the latest victims of the coronavirus crisis in mainland China. Amid a scramble to control the spread of COVID-19, Chinese authorities believe, based on samples and tests, that at ...

The Brandywine Valley SPCA welcomed nearly 100 shelter animals from Florida on Saturday, just days after taking in 30 cats and kittens ahead of Hurricane Milton. The emergency airlift, sponsored ...

SALEM, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office said three people are facing additional animal abuse charges after 97 animals were seized in August. Officials said a further ...

This is not your grandmother’s “A is for Aardvark” catalog of the world’s animals. Simon Barnes’ A History of the World in 100 Animals is a look at 100 animal species and taxa that have ...

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...