I never knew the horizon could be so vast, the sky so open, until I started doing research and conservation work in the ...

Marine ecologist Alannah Vellacott grew up in a Bahamian subsistence fishing community, where wrestling sharks before sunrise was part of daily life. Now ...

Ernest Thompson Seton's tale about an encounter with a wolf led to the establishment of the National Park system and the Boy Scout movement in America.

Three-toed sloths are some of the slowest and seemingly laziest creatures in the world. Instead of evolving to eat more, they evolved to do less.

Armadillos form part of the superorder Xenarthra along with anteaters and sloths. There are 21 extant species of armadillo, some of which are distinguished by the number of bands on their armor ...

Tiger sharks are one of the largest shark species. On average, they measure 10 to 14 feet and weigh 850 to 1,400 pounds. But they can be as long as 20 to 25 feet and weigh more than 1,900 pounds ...

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia ...

Christian Cooper: I was actually dealing with the fallout about National Audubon not changing the name. And my sister happened to text me about something completely unrelated, and she didn’t ...

When Samuel Ramsey was a child, he was afraid of bugs. But a trip to the library with his mother changed everything and led him to become a bee ...

Capybara: a giant rodent native to South and Central America. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Rodentia Family: | Hydrochaeridae Genus: | Hydrochoeris There are ...

The axolotl is a type of salamander. It has a long tail, flat head, and four lizard-like limbs, which it uses to move around the lake floor. But unlike other salamanders, axolotls are neotenic ...

Taking a walk through the Amazon rainforest? Might want to keep an eye out for what look and sound like cannonballs, crashing down from above at more than ...