Today, if you look across the land of North America, the biggest animal you are going to see is the bison. When you see it in ...

Sharks, alligators, bears, snakes, mountain lions - find out how widespread America's most feared animals really are.

Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a vast range of habitats. From land to sea, there are forests, mountains, ...

With their beady eyes, big ears, hairless tails and short, stocky legs, opossums are distinctive marsupials. Despite their odd appearance, these animals have a rich evolutionary history and have ...

This week on The Bookmark, John Gruesser, editor of "Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction" and "Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired ...

Exotic animals are intriguing for a variety of reasons, leading some people to covet them. But these wild creatures are not conducive to being kept as pets, and many are illegal to own in the United ...

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era beginning in 1866, with the founding of the first animal welfare society. It ...

Does "the animal" exist? Toward a theory of social life with animals / Susan J. Pearson and Mary Weismantel -- Touching animals : the search for a deeper understanding of animals / Nigel Rothfels -- ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

Science has the ability to inspire awe, to improve our lives—and, sometimes, to make us laugh. Below, Scientific American has rounded up some of the things we learned about animals this year that gave ...