Two chicks hatched this spring at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the Zoo's conservation science campus in ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a beach or a panda somersaulting, actually lights up the same brain areas as ...

Which critters make the cutest babies? From kits and cubs to hoglets and hatchlings, we’ve scoured the animal kingdom to find the 30 most adorable offspring in the natural world, in our humble opinion ...

There's something oh-so-soothing about baby animals. Tiny paws, oversized eyes, and ears they are yet to grow into. They wobble when they walk, squeak when they're supposed to roar, and stare at the ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at the multi-hour-long lines to see Moo Deng, a pygmy hippo in Thailand who has ...

Every spring, people call to report they "rescued" young wildlife. That's not the case.

The animal lovers at ZooEarthTV capture adorable sloth bear cubs happily tumbling and playing together in the great outdoors.

Two popcorn-scented creatures were born in North Carolina. Screengrab of Greensboro Science Center's Facebook post From popcorn-scented creatures to a surprise chimpanzee, North Carolina zoos had ...

Meet animals whose survival depends on their teeth and fangs. Meet animals whose survival depends on their teeth and fangs. Featuring the world's deadliest land snake, the Taipan, and a baby ...

“Motherese” is the cutesy language we use around preverbal infants. It serves important roles in language development and emotional coregulation. But why do we use it with animals? Domestication ...