Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has been named New Zealand's ...

Bayer Leverkusen rediscovered some of the late-goal magic from its title-winning season as Patrik Schick's added-time header ...

Animal biotechnology is a branch of biotechnology in which molecular biology techniques are used to genetically engineer (i.e. modify the genome of) animals in order to improve their suitability ...

The world's smallest otter was last officially sighted in 1839 and was believed to have been driven to extinction. However, ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

There is much concern about the accelerated pace of extinctions globally, so when a species is rediscovered, it gives hope to ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...

The States of Guernsey asks residents not to feed the animal as it could delay efforts to catch it. A non-native grey squirrel on the loose in Guernsey "appears to be healthy", rescuers say.

For over a century, the Omiltemi cottontail rabbit was lost to science, unseen since its last recorded sighting 120 years ago. Local hunters in Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur insisted the rabbit ...

Aston Villa loan star Marcus Rashford would have been “destroyed” by the media if he had been pictured leaving a pub on his day off, as the club's former captain Jack Grealish was last week ...