The official count, a legal requirement of the zoo's licence, saw more than 500 animals across 145 species totted up. A ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

The same goes for anybody who went for a plesiosaur: they weren't dinosaurs, and neither were their flying pals. “You may ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Big cats, birds, primates and pangolins were among the nearly 20,000 threatened or protected animals rescued in a recent ...

Teach young learners all about the fascinating world of reptiles with this free downloadable 5-day lesson plan.

Every reptile species has its own personality, environmental requirements, and care needs. Interestingly, certain reptiles ...

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

Firefighters in Virginia came to the rescue of a cat that fell down a well and became trapped in the pump house 10 feet under ...

From the glacial fjords of Chilean Patagonia to the beaches and mountains of Baja California, Hispanic America, representing ...

A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard ...