Animals often get labeled as either predators or prey. But in the wild, survival isn’t always a one-animal job. Some species form partnerships that help them find food, avoid danger, or raise young.

Nature is full of surprises, but nothing is more mind-blowing than how some animals form life-saving partnerships to thrive together. This is called mutualism, and it's often anything but ordinary. In ...

We project a great deal onto animals. They are elevated into ideals of love and fidelity (dogs, horses), and often they are reduced to objects and tools (cattle, pigs, horses again). Much of ...

Parental instinct in animals is usually tied to the survival of their species. But sometimes, animals surprise us. They adopt babies from entirely different species and demonstrate care that appears ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

How did the characteristic pattern of embryonic cell divisions during animal development evolve? Analysis of the multicellular development of an organism related to animals now provides some answers.