Animals

The animal was found unharmed, police say. Its alleged owner was in court Friday.

A Texas man free on bond from a murder charge was returned to custody Monday after neighbors found a pet tiger wandering around a Houston neighborhood.

If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion.

From Texas Standard: The fall flounder run is a treasured Texas angling tradition. Southern flounder – the flat fish with both eyes on one side of its...

Animal shelters, like so many other places across Texas, have had to close their doors to limit the spread of the coronavirus. But that doesn’t mean…

A current trend in food, clean eating's not about the actual cleanliness of food, but rather choosing minimally processed, ethically raised foods rich in…

Unpredictable moments involved the cost of drugs, the fight against snakebites and kissing bugs ... and reproductive rights.

Scientists are trying to figure out why so many gray whales in the Pacific Ocean are dying from starvation.

A team of high school students in Tennessee researched the century-old story of "Murderous Mary" and found a town eager for redemption. Their podcast is a winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.

Recent rains and warmer weather are expected to make the local mosquito population explode. Local health officials offered advice on how to fight them off.

If you're looking for a new hobby this summer, here's an idea. It's something that gets you out of the house and into the fresh air. It demands...

"Protecting biodiversity amounts to protecting humanity," says UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, who warns that species are being lost at an alarming rate.