At 5 a.m., six keepers file into the Houston Zoo's commissary kitchen and spend the next five hours chopping produce, portioning meat and weighing hay. By the time the rest of the zoo staff arrives, ...

Why is it that Americans eat cows and pigs but not horses and dogs? There’s only one reason: custom. We’re used to it, that’s all. There’s certainly nothing about horses and dogs that renders them ...

Bears, wild boars and dogs are the most likely acorn-gulping culprits; most other animals soften and chew them.

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

Things get out of control when live lizards become part of the menu. The pond erupts with power as the new aggressive fish go into full predator mode. This is one feeding you have to see to believe.

Florida is unfortunately home to a lot of uninvited guests — especially invasive animals. But there might be another way to control their rapidly increasing populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Several rhesus monkeys escaped when the truck carrying them crashed near Heidelberg. If any are not caught, could they ...