Pandas have a unique “thumb,” which is actually an extended wrist bone. This helps them hold and strip bamboo with precision, making them expert eaters. When born, pandas are about the size of a stick ...

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Cute creatures going viral is nothing new. Seven years ago, the Cincinnati Zoo wanted TIME to name Fiona the hippo Person—er, Animal?—of the Year. But 2024 seems to be on a different level of ...

This fall we got new carpeting. While packing our house we found dozens of items from our kids' childhood — clothes, stuffed animals, cuddle blankets — shoved into closets and under beds.

Hansen said that this year, Arctic Air, one of the outfitters that used to bring hunters to the Kotzebue area, left. He said that the other outfitter reported about 80 animals harvested.

Killer whales are expanding their territory and have moved into Arctic waters as climate change melts sea ice, with two genetically distinct populations being identified by Canadian scientists. But ...

When a young skateboarder saw some kids picking on a feral kitten ... his skateboard away for a promise that they would leave the animal alone. It worked, and now the kitten is his “best ...

The Arctic is “where the confrontation of the world’s leading states is unfolding,” the head of the Russian Navy said at a recent forum in St. Petersburg where regional cooperation had ...

Greenland is not for sale, its elected leader has said, responding to comments made by US president-elect Donald Trump regarding “ownership and control” of the vast Arctic island that has been ...

She wasn’t the only nonhuman newsmaker this year. Indeed, 2024 was the year that animals seemed to do it all, becoming A-list celebrities, political weapons and cautionary tales. Along the way ...

Animals display surprising romantic behaviors ... Those vary from the desert-dwelling fennec foxes to the snow-covered white-furred arctic foxes and, the largest red fox among them.