Female mice are sexually mature at roughly 6 weeks old, gestation lasts about 20 days, and they can mate again 24 hours later ...

Churchill is a remote Canadian town that not only lives with polar bears next door, but loves them. That's because the ...

From amphibians and fish in nearby swamps to the abundant vegetation along the Tennessee River, students of all ages from ...

Here’s what you should do if you encounter an invasive dog-sized lizards in South Carolina, Department of Natural Resources says.

However, many of the species who live here are now at risk of disappearing forever due to habitat destruction, climate change ...

About this time of year, tegus are likely to be ready to brumate, where the body slows down and may not move for weeks. Tegus ...

Each year inside British laboratories, around 3 million animals are experimented on. Every 8 seconds, one animal dies. Cats, dogs, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, monkeys and other animals are used ...

People with HIV can expect to live a near-normal life expectancy if diagnosed and treated early. With advances in antiretroviral therapy, people living with HIV can expect to live longer and healthier ...

Dr Greg Albery from Trinity College Dublin, a co-editor on the Special Issue, said: "Because aging is a universal process, and all animals live in some sort of social context, the topics that we ...

Burrows are also a place where an animal can store its food or keep its young away from danger. Some animals live in burrows alone or with their young until they are old enough to survive on their own ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior ... to estimate how long a marmot would live. Yellow-bellied marmots are an ...