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 ...

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 ...

Why do we find some animals cute? The answer has evolutionary roots. It is thought that animals that in some way resemble ...

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 ...

TULSA, Okla.—On a cuteness scale of zero to 100, where zero is “not cute at all” and 100 is “the cutest thing I have EVER seen,” raters gave the fluffy white puppy with black eyes and button nose a ...