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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists still don't fully understand why some animals eat their own offspring. If animals have an instinct to reproduce and ...

Baby animals on display at Animal Welfare League of Arlington (courtesy AWLA) The Animal Welfare League of Arlington is inviting the community to its equivalent of a baby shower this weekend. “Spring ...

The animal kingdom mirrors our own in many ways, like how animals care for their young. Just as humans hire babysitters or rely on grandparents and friends to watch their kids, animals also care for ...

Spring is approaching and one sure sign of the season are the new babies at the San Diego Zoo who are venturing outside of the den and peeking out of mom’s pouch for the first time. The zoo recently ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who has ...

When we think about newborn animals, it’s understandable that we might think of babies that are small and helpless, entirely reliant on their parents for their every need. However, in the wild, there ...

Some fish produce millions of eggs. Insects can repopulate at astonishing speed. Some birds lay more eggs than it seems possible for them to handle. And even some mammals have litters so large they ...

PITTSFIELD — Olive Larrivee starts her day the same way she spends it — being greeted by precious animals. When she arrives at Hancock Shaker Village each morning, she’s intercepted by the living ...