Shining for Science: Pictures of Glowing Animals. Check out the wide variety of organisms that shine bright for scientific study—and how they acquired their florescent look.

Animals isolate like people do in old age -- but that might be a good thing, scientists say. VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Being a loner isn’t un-herd of for these four-legged ...

Runners-up in this category included an image of a tiny octopus delicately balanced on top of jellyfish-like animals named salps, snapped in the Philippines in 2024 by Pietro Formis, and an eerie ...

Images reveal the shocking ways animals could be changed if gene-editing is allowed to spiral out of control.

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Animals running in response to hearing human voices in Kruger National Park (Zanette et al. / Current Biology) The conditions of the study aren’t universal to animal-human interactions.

With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and tamarins to pangolins and sea stars, should look like on the inside.

Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus. Recent research backs them up.

READ MORE: Full list of extinct animals being brought back from extinction As the power of gene editing becomes more advanced, ideas that once seemed like science fiction are rapidly becoming a ...