Eelpouts are primarily bottom-dwelling species, found in deep trenches or around hydrothermal vents in some of the planet’s ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to ...

The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

The three baby wolves were born this winter at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s conservation and research campus in Front Royal ...

New research has discovered 16 new desert grasshopper species, revealing their Ice Age-driven isolation and diversification.

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Skunks are weaned after two months and the young skunks follow their mother for the first few months before going off on ...

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

It’s no secret that owls are a hot topic in the bird world. These birds of prey are fascinating, unique and rarely seen due ...

A fungus that has killed millions of bats across North America has arrived in Arizona, state wildlife officials announced on ...

A team at Rutgers is using artificial intelligence to predict where whales will be off New Jersey's coast. The data could save the animals' lives.

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.