We often applaud animals for learning tricks. But until recently, we rarely acknowledged that significant intelligence ...

Dec. 1, 2006 — -- Following the killer whale attack on a SeaWorld trainer in San Diego this week, many people are wondering whether the attack was malicious, or if the whale was just playing ...

Japan is planning to send in its army to help fight bears after a spate of killings by the wild beasts. Some 73 people have ...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio Townspeople hid indoors Wednesday as deputies with high-powered rifles hunted down and killed lions, bears, tigers and dozens of other exotic beasts that escaped from a wild-animal ...

Last year, Jeff Nichols' terrific, unsettling Take Shelter told us a tale of climatic cataclysm as moody apocalypse — both psychological and terrestrial. Dark storms loomed, threatening the world with ...