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The Marlborough City Council is the latest Massachusetts community to vote to ban use of rat poison on municipal property.

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The camera captured, as expected, cow after cow after cow. But then, as Lorenzana kept clicking through, he saw it: a jaguar, “the undisputed ruler of the neotropical forests, captured in a beautiful ...

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Australia has a remarkable reputation as a place where animals believed to be extinct – sometimes for more than a century – ...

Did you know that some creatures have the ability to regenerate? Here's our list of fascinating animals that regenerate.

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The genomes of long-living, big-brained mammal species reveal that they carry more copies of immunity genes. Experts speculate that these genes may affect longevity.

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A lynx born in a zoo in Cornwall could become the first UK zoo-born cat to be successfully released into the wild. Animals ...