FLAGSTAFF Hill's famous Loch Ard Peacock may soon be recognised as a state treasure if its nomination for the Victorian Heritage Register is approved.

Cassini recently revealed new data that appeared to overturn the decades-old belief that our solar system resembled a comet in shape as it moves through the interstellar medium (the matter between stars in our corner of the Milky Way galaxy).

Thanksgiving. Two days to go. I have a hard time with this day. For one, I have issues with it that resemble my issues with Columbus Day. And when you're discomfited by a holiday's origins, and its current traditions are overwhelmingly exploitative and

News worth celebrating doesn't seem to come very often these days, especially when in regards to our nonhuman brethren, but today marks a very positive rarity, the first conviction under Ontario's recently enacted Provincial Animal Welfare Act.

An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of the domestic horse Equus caballus, revealing a genome structure with remarkable similarities to humans and more than one million genetic differences across a variety of horse breeds .

Latin American governments are considering a bloc response to the Japanese whaling fleet's departure for Antarctica, in a new season of what it claims is "hunting for scientific purposes" and which threatens to kill 1,000 whales in the protected Southern

KATMANDU, Nepal - Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.

A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.

Ravens have feelings, too, at least judging from an eerie scene Tuesday morning on Minnie Street in east Fairbanks. After two ravens roosting on top of a power transformer were electrocuted, hundreds of ravens showed up within a minute or two and star

A newfound creature nicknamed "Dumbo" (pictured) may look like it's all ears--but the protrusions are actually fins that help propel the animal through the darkness 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) under the sea.