While most wild animals avoid humans, a small number of species are responsible for the majority of fatal attacks each year. Some are predators by nature, while others bite or kill out of defense, ...

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to eat more invasive species. In Mississippi, you can hunt and fish for nutria, feral hogs, carp and more ...

Humans are often described as “super-predators,” but wildlife may not respond to us as uniformly as once thought. People have ...

As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that’s closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...

The CDC describes rat lungworm as a parasite found in rats, whose larvae are shed in rat feces and then taken up by snails ...

"This makes me so excited." Woman urges people to eat from trees easily found growing in wild: 'They were delicious' first appeared on The Cool Down.

This colorful, nature-forward adventure directed by Daniel Chong and penned by Jesse Andrews tells a tale of humans using a highly advanced technology — “hopping” — to transfer their consciousnesses ...

Olivia Culpo is using offcuts of her hair to keep wild coyotes from stalking her pet dog. Taking to her Instagram Stories on Sunday, March 8, to detail her experience, Culpo, 33, revealed that she’d ...

Cultural traditions can deceive us into assuming things about wildlife especially regarding what lives where. We expect roadrunners to live in cactus country, especially places grown with the giant ...

To research his book “Grizzly Confidential,” author Kevin Grange headed to Katmai National Park in Alaska to watch the famous bears fish, face off and fatten up for winter. Writer Kevin Grange has ...

Some tigers do become serial man-eaters. But the evidence suggests they are driven by necessity rather than preference.