If you're looking to go beyond the ordinary with a gift this holiday season, you might want to gift a loved one a ...

If you need to escape the real world right now, turn to the natural one with these books about birds, plants, and other ...

In 1970, after fighting in Vietnam, young Walt Longmire took a job working security for an oil company in Alaska.

Author Katherine Rundell is out with a bestiary for our times that tells the stories of creatures endangered by man-made ...

Songbirds fill the stories of the Chamorro people of the Mariana Islands and Guam. In one story, a woman dressed in blue and ...

Turn off the Moo Deng livestream and see pygmy hippos in Chicagoland. You can visit Banana at Brookfield Zoo’s Pachyderm ...

Three-month-old kit Roxie had recently lost her mum, Ginger, but appeared to be doing well. That changed on November 5; in ...

From the grotesque to the intriguing to the downright bizarre, everything a child needs to know about the secret world of ...

Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...

While allergies in domesticated animals like dogs, cats, horses, and some birds are common, experts say there are few ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo announced today that 55-year-old Patti the Hippo, who had been living at the zoo for more than a ...

In case you can’t get enough of the little pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there’s now an official song featuring the ...