ANIMALS

Special events like the Cincinnati Zoo's daily Facebook Lives and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's 'quarantine soirées' make social distancing feel a bit less mundane.

Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is closed to visitors due to the coronavirus outbreak, and the penguins there got to take advantage of the empty halls.

There are a million reasons why we should be paying more attention to treehoppers, entomology student Brendan Morris says.

Knowing your equines is no mere horseplay. Here's how to tell the difference between horses, ponies, and even miniature horses.

Animal crossings, also known as animal bridges or wildlife overpasses, protect animals from traffic and promote genetic diversity.

If you're into cute animals, delicious food, alien abductions, and/or proper punctuation, March is full of special days that celebrate a wide variety of quirky passions.

Good news: chubby little brown bats might be genetically resistant to white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that’s killed more than 5.5 million bats since it was first documented in 2006.

This Costa Rica animal rescue center houses every kind of animal, from spider monkeys to sea turtles.

Coyote Peterson gives Mental Floss the scoop on his new Animal Planet series, 'Brave the Wild'—and reveals how snapping turtles figure into the story.

Older dogs in shelters sometimes get overlooked because of their age status, but the San Francisco-based Muttville has changed the stigma.

Big cats like lions, tigers, and leopards go nuts for Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men, and now a UK zoo is calling for donations of the cologne.

These nuisance creatures have a system for braving the cold so they can emerge in the spring and get back to the business of slurping up your blood.