The UK government introduces a wide-ranging plan to improve the welfare of some animals.

All creatures great and small will be protected in the new proposals, according to the Queen's Speech.

One of the UK's rarest fish is set to benefit from a conservation project to unlock the River Severn.

Biologists are puzzled by evidence of animals that care for those from other social groups or even species.

The discovery in the Cairngorms is only the eighth time a cow wheat shieldbug has been recorded in Scotland.

Medical research to benefit people is first conducted in animals. Creating a new biomedical model by inserting human immune cells into pigs may lead to new insights and treatments.

Scientists reveal how male gorillas tell others how big and strong they are by chest beating.

Conservationists urge Tenby tourists to enjoy the stray mammal's temporary visit "from a distance".

You share the same drug habits, the same age-related memory problems and are similarly impatient when forced to wait for food.