Highly adaptable, Asian small-clawed otters can thrive in a variety of freshwater aquatic habitats, from swamps and mangrove ...

A horse has died on the first day of the Grand National Festival at Aintree on Thursday. Willy De Houelle, which was ridden ...

This superstition about black cats and other black animals in general has shaped people’s preferences about animals. It’s left its mark on things such as lower adoption rates for black cats and ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Siku, a polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, developed allergies to various substances including human hair dander (Credit: ...

A juvenile Asian small-clawed otter, long thought extinct in Nepal, has been spotted for the first time since 1839, marking a ...

As a new animal habitat sprung up at Phoenix Zoo, two California condors watched closely. Then they learned who was moving in ...

State officials said bobcats, Connecticut’s only wild cat species, have seen their population growing across the state so far ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

An old black and white photo of mountains in montana The ... During off-season camping trips I’m continually sneaking up on ...

On a summer day on Birch Hill in Burnham, Jesse Cunningham roams the terrain behind the metal dumpsters used by the Birch ...