Titanium dioxide is an artificial coloring that can make foods bright white. Here’s what you need to know about common sources and safety concerns.

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past ...

It's not just an effort to increase the presence of a creature that once called the region home. Group of animals make ...

The Middle Ages were a time of extraordinary customs, but few are as bizarre as putting animals on trial. From pigs accused of murder to swarms of pests excommunicated by clergy, these peculiar legal ...

In 1978, parvovirus - then common to cats - started infecting dogs in Europe. The virus spread quickly around the globe, killing hundreds of thousands ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

From the weird to the wonderful, here's our roundup of animals you've never heard of before (and certainly won't forget in a ...

Here are five more ways that humans have scuppered the love lives of animals.

Rangers are scrambling to trap a group of wild boar thought to have been deliberately released in the Cairngorms. Who let them loose—and why?

The U.K. has 4 million more dogs than previously estimated, with regional hotspots in Telford, Darlington and Harrogate, new ...