The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a ...

What color was the fur of early mammals, back during the time of the dinosaurs? Paleontologists used to think that questions ...

When I started horse riding lessons at the age of eight, I was told that if a horse had its ears forward that was a good sign ...

Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their ...

From the striking rainbow colors of parrots in the rainforest to the brilliant flashes of yellows, oranges and blues in coral ...

Joanne Lefson, who has studied the mindset behind animal art, offers a deep dive into how and why animals paint and what ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels ...

But whether or not they realize it, many thousands of clones have already been produced as the cloning process has become ...

About 10.6 percent of people are left-handed, but what about animals? A new study looked at data from 172 animal species to ...

Here are 5 must-see big cats found in the forests of India: The national animal of India, the Royal Bengal tiger ... A Black Panther is a leopard only, but because of a rare mutation called melanism, ...

In simple terms, melanism is essentially the opposite of albinism – which can cause some animals and birds to have rare white skin, fur or feathers. Other than turning animals unusually dark, or even ...

With this in mind, black animals should not be confused with melanistic animals who suffer from melanism. Melanism is a mutated condition that causes excessive development of eumelanin in the skin and ...