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 ...

It’s that time of year again: PEOPLE magazine is on the search for the World’s Cutest Dog. The magazine has partnered with Pedigree for the eighth year in a row. Entries are open most of the month, ...

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 ...

NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - There's a brand-new face at the Lehigh Valley Zoo, and she's turning heads with her fluffy black fleece. "A cute little baby is just always very exciting for the staff and ...

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 ...

A cute baby hippo is causing smiles at the zoo. The little animal stubbornly refuses to leave its pool. Even the patient attempts of the keeper are unsuccessful. ‘I’ve never seen it this empty’: the ...