Taking time off work to care for a sick pet is now officially recognized in Italy. Employees can take up to three days of paid leave each year if their companion animal needs urgent medical care.

Wanderer’s Rest Humane Association has been awarded $500,000 in state funding to support renovations and upgrades.

Police and emergency crews are responding to reports of a large loose animal near one of the Utica's busiest highway access ...

Rewilding is often portrayed as being no different to land abandonment. But the case of Italy’s Abruzzo region shows this to ...

Every now and then the internet trips over something so old it circles back to feeling brand new, and people stop scrolling.

Two researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered a long-lost manuscript containing the oldest known poem in the ...

Dr Emma Southon pulls no punches tackling an outrageous subject in this lively work brimming with anger and disgust ...

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library. The poem, "Caedmon’s Hymn," was ...

Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could ...

The funerary marker, which surfaced on a New Orleans property last year, once belonged to a Roman soldier who died nearly ...

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for illegal wildlife trade. Nonprofits with hotlines to report trafficking produce an outsized ...

Click into the map for a closer look. The province of Baetica in Spain was a hub for the production of olive oil, which was ...