CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The pair of animals chosen as mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are stoats — weasel-like creatures that are at risk because of climate change. One of ...

Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and died across the Americas. They were heavier than today’s gray wolves, ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

Several weekends ago, I watched the film “Wicked.” I was totally captivated and had eaten about three times as much popcorn as I intended when an evil new teacher named Professor Nikidik arrived at ...

BAY LAKE, Fla. – I was not expecting to cry at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. But, as parrots of every color flew over me, creating a feathery rainbow, I couldn’t help but tear up. “There are more people ...