Some animal facts sound like internet exaggerations until you look at the research behind them. Biologists and field researchers have confirmed many of these traits through long-term observation, ...

As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced and common, it's hard to know what's real or not, complicating the search ...

Memphis city council members Pearl Eva Walker and Yolanda Cooper Sutton (and many other people online) say that snow is fake.

A viral Facebook post with more than 10,000 ‘likes’ featuring people bundling up horses with duct tape and insulation in North Carolina ahead of a winter storm in late January is an artificial ...

The post, which spread widely, appeared to describe the president’s rationale for deleting a racist video about the Obamas ...

From television to artificial intelligence, new technologies have made it easier to fabricate the truth. The increasing use ...

By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may ...

For decades, scientists have tried to answer a simple question: why be honest when deception is possible? Whether it is a peacock's tail, a stag's roar, or a human's résumé, signals are means to ...

Real eyewitness footage contains the rough edges that come with real life. Those traits are now creeping into AI-generated ...

A video of a hippo pooping on a cheetah in self-defense is going viral on the internet. The short 14-second clip was shared by the X account @stocksnipa on Jan. 22. The account @quazapacked reposted ...

Conservationists warn that increasingly realistic AI-generated wildlife images and videos are spreading misinformation that can provoke fear, panic and hostility toward wild animals. Fake footage ...

Dogs Trust has shared a 'warning' alert for pet owners who use social media. Issuing an urgent message, the animal charity said it has seen 'a rise in scammers impersonating our rehoming centres', ...