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Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...

We have written about the importance of planting native plants, stressing the role they have in creating habitat and contributing to our own local Texas identity. With this also comes a growing ...

A viral video captured a rare fight between a crocodile and an alligator on a sidewalk in Florida’s Everglades National Park, ...

This is simply not true. In August 2024, NASA announced that it would be using Space X’s Dragon capsule to bring them back in ...

Press Democrat readers comment on deported physician, and more.

President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have ...

Florida is the only state you can find native crocodiles in the wild, and the highest density of these is in the Everglades.

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

Brian Nesvik, the former director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, stands to oversee plant and wildlife management ...

The El Paso Zoo is grappling with the loss of its accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) following an inspection report that highlighted ...

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board says if investigators were able to quickly find alarming data about the number of close calls in the years before the fatal midair collision over ...