Animal shelters and rescues ask people to open their homes to pets as coronavirus forces the shelters to shut down.

Photographers across the country are capturing images of families at home during the pandemic for the Front Steps Project.

An old dog named Toretto who waited years at the shelter finds the perfect family.

Researchers are hoping to train dogs to detect people with COVID-19, even if they don't have symptoms.

There are lots of ways to be experience awe through everyday things — even from your couch, and even during coronavirus lockdown.

From veterinary visits to buying dog food, pet owners have questions about how to keep their pets healthy and safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

Animal shelters around the U.S. are running out of adoptable animals as more people take in fosters and adopt pets because they're at home more.

Researchers have found a kind of shipworm that eats its way through rocks.

Scientists find a tiny pocket shark that glows in the dark in the Gulf of Mexico.

Explore.org and the Owl Research Institute team up for a live cam that offers a rare glimpse of an arctic snow owl nest in Alaska.

When faced with danger, embryos warn each other from inside their egg.

Sharks? Snakes? The animal that's deadliest to humans probably isn't what you think it is.

This video shows burrowing owls discovering the presence of a "hidden" observation camera. It doesn't end well for the camera.

Squirrels pay close attention to bird chatter to find out if there's a predator nearby.

New research finds a protein in honeybee semen that makes the queen temporarily blind.

Just why is that grocery bag or holiday wrapping paper so irresistable to your feline friend? Scientists have some thoughts on why cats love paper and plastic.

Rats played hide-and-seek with scientists for no other reward than strokes and tickles.

A new study concludes that fish feel pain just as sharply as we do.

A new study finds as much as 70% of a dog's behavior, including aggressiveness, is inherited.

Scientists have been working to resurrect the woolly mammoth for years now. How close are we, and should we even be doing it?

A strange and talented blob will be revealed to the public in Paris for the first time.

Researchers have found a toad that perfectly mimics a poisonous snake right down to its hiss.

Scientists got rats to drive little cars, and it could help improve mental health treatments for humans.

insects in German forests and grasslands have declined by about one-third in just the past decade.

A newborn flamingo baby is going viral after posts by the Denver Zoo.

Experts at San Diego Zoo's medical center perform cataract surgery on Leslie the lowland gorilla to save her eyesight.

This giant Galapagos tortoise will "retire" from a successful mating program that helped the species rebound from very small numbers.

A study of rainbow jewel beetle finds iridescence may be the ultimate form of camouflage.

Scientists are outfitting wandering albatrosses with radar to spot illegal operations in the open sea where technology fails.

Ants determine if a newcomer is a friend or foe based on how certain chemical markers are decoded in their brain — and getting along is the default setting.

A new policy allows research animals at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be adopted into forever homes when their experiments end.

A new study finds some marine animals are brilliant virus exterminators.

New research finds the traditional beer can flick does nothing at all for fizz.

With more people drinking less, alcohol-free cocktails have come a long way since the days of sugary-sweet mocktails and tasteless beer.

Whether it's Dry January or Dry July, a month off from alcohol could be good for your body.

The 'City of Light' announces plan to produce 50 percent of its energy from algae.

Fast-spreading algae has spread quickly along crucial New York waterways that provide drinking water.

'Fuel' documentary brings change to classrooms. Film's green curriculum inspires schools to switch to biodiesel buses.

Breakthrough algae oil technology unveiled in Los Angeles! Sarah Backhouse was there and give you the scoop.

There is a lot of hype around algae-based biofuel but is it that much better than petroleum? Or is it even possible without petroleum? UVA Study.

Reduction of dangerous phosphates in cleaners has some protesting lack of cleaning prowess.

Algae fuel start-ups across the country are getting closer to commercial scale production of the environmentally friendly fuel, thanks to investment from the go

By increasing the lipid content, VG Energy says it could make algal biofuel at significantly lower costs.

Historic floods and relentless storms are expected to boost the dead zone up to 15 percent larger than ever before, experts say.

Algae-based fuels are finally reaching the commercial stage, and they're already in airplanes and U.S. Navy ships. And they could be coming soon to a gas statio

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool reopened to the public at the end of August, after an almost 2-year renovation costing $34 million. After being recently fi

The $34 million renovation took two years to complete is expected to save million of gallons of water a year, but the work had an unintended side effect. The po

Mezzo-soprano Louise Ashcroft wore a squid-like mask. As she sang, the carbon dioxide fed the algae in her mask and nearby tanks, and the algae grew over the co

Algae alternative fuel research could change the future, and ASU is leading the way. A $15 million U.S. Department of Energy grant was awarded to the Algae Tes

The difference in color between the northern and southern halves of Utah's Great Salt Lake are clear as day. But what causes that pink hue?