PEOPLE magazine is on the search for the World’s Cutest Dog. The magazine has partnered with Pedigree for the eighth year in ...

Map of Life is a new Google Maps-based website, which indicates the distribution of almost every species of vertebrate animal in the world.

As Moo Deng, the popular pygmy hippo continues to soar in popularity, Newsweek looks at the most popular animals around the globe.

According to the World Wildlife Foundation, the largest animal in the world is the Antarctic blue whale. It can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretch an astonishing 98 feet in length.

A research team from Yale University and the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a demo of a project called "Map of Life", which is an ambitious Web-based endeavor designed to show the ...

Three years, approximately 2,602 working hours and 1,642 animal species later, “Wild World” is a hand-drawn map of our planet that both inspires and celebrates wonder.

According to the BBC, there are an estimated 8.7 million species of animals in the world. Experts believe some of these species will go extinct before they are able to be studied. It’s believed ...

Although countless animals prefer company, traveling in groups, and sticking together for safety and camaraderie, there are also plenty of loners in the animal world. These solitary animals prefer ...

How animals see the world, according to a new camera system. The reconstructed video incorporates UV light that is invisible to humans. By Laura Baisas. Published Jan 23, 2024 2:00 PM EST ...

Building a humane world for animals 05:19. The sprawling Black Beauty Ranch, in East Texas, takes its name from the classic 1877 novel.Narrated by a horse, "Black Beauty" encouraged readers see ...

Many animals, like flies, depend on color in a variety of ways — to help them find mates or food or prey. So biologists who study animals need to know what the world looks like to those animals. But ...

Almost all animals in that Map of Life dataset are visually represented in this article, with a few exclusions. Data used in the maps showing habitat loss also comes from Map of Life.