When you think of flying animals, the first things that come to mind are birds. Birds are some of the closest relatives to ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

Even the biggest skeptics believe in the magic of animals. These creatures, both the incredibly small and the massively huge, ...

Is there any good news out there? Well, maybe. Last week, we read a story in the LA Times about Amelia Air, a nonprofit organization that's flying animals in overcrowded shelters to less crowded ...

The days of pets flying with their owners in airplane cabins for free are coming to an end. The Transportation Department issued a final rule Wednesday covering animals on airlines. It decided that ...

In vertebrates, calcium is stored in bones, and its release is tightly regulated. Now, using fruit flies as a model organism, researchers at University of Tsukuba have shown that even animals without ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Petra Janney, of Amelia Air, a non-profit that helps fly animals from overcrowded shelters to areas of the country where they have a better chance of getting adopted. Is ...