For decades, most people believed the first animal in space was a dog. That story was repeated in textbooks, documentaries, and popular culture. In reality, fruit flies reached space years earlier ...

Cochise County has never had a county animal shelter, forcing local cities to house animals found roaming the streets. But ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is still on the lookout for a specific bear that has taken up residence in an Altadena home's crawl space. A trap set by the department did work — at ...

Christina Urrutia Urena, who began her rescue operation in 2024, claims to have successfully placed more than 100 dogs with ...

Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, who is paralyzed from the waist down, flew to space on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket ...

One of the first things I encourage new pet parents to do is schedule a visit with a veterinarian. Even pets adopted from ...

Soon animal lovers can travel to Orlando to visit Sloth World. This 7,500-square-foot space will house more than 40 sloths ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space, has been shrouded in legend, misinformation, and propaganda since she first ...

With 2025 drawing to a close, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is celebrating some of the year’s most significant steps ...

Schuylkill County shelters and rescues are working diligently to help as many animals in need possible — but the ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...