Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become famous ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a beach or a panda somersaulting, actually lights up the same brain areas as ...

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just look at ...

The internet loves cute animals. (Shocking, I know.) But more than a fact of life, it's practically a pillar supporting the weight of the online world's entire infrastructure. Some of the earliest ...

Tula-Tu, the elephant calf born earlier this month, is undeniably cute. But she isn’t the first baby animal to cause visitors to Portland’s zoo to audibly say, “Awwwwww.” Here are 12 sweet animal ...

We at the Arkansas Times tend to get excited when the Little Rock Zoo welcomes newborns to the family; when we learned the zoo is currently home to more than a dozen baby and juvenile critters, we ...

Before RodeoHouston wraps up its last few days, one place to put on you MUST-VISIT list is the birthing center inside NRG Center. It’s where all the adorable little baby animals are born! Not only is ...