One morning, I was leading a game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, when we came across a small herd of Thomson's gazelles grazing and nearby a troop of 50-60 olive baboons foraging, some on ...

These aren't the northern cardinals and blue jays of your backyard. I recently spent six days in Costa Rica, birding my heart out. From sunrise to sunset, I had my ...

Scientists have identified a 3.3-million-year-old giant prehistoric monster crocodile species that likely hunted early human ...

In a sense, this is an even worse invader than the python. We’re talking about a species that is fundamentally altering wetland production” ...

Western mosquitofish, pictured here, are known as the "plague minnow" due to their aggressive impact on native habitats when introduced. For decades, ecologists have known that how a species looks or ...

Including rare species of birds such as boat-billed herons, black-faced ibises and tawny frogmouths; zoo visitors can also see giant otters, Amur tigers, Malayan bears, giant pandas, and many other ...

Great Blue Herons demand isolation in their nesting sites, and are very sensitive to human disturbance. Nests are often found in colonies known as “heronries,” and can be anywhere from treetops like ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

We often think of Britain’s birds as gentle and graceful. They eat seeds, visit gardens, and sing in the mornings. But some ...

A blade-crested Spinosaurus discovered in the Sahara is rewriting the final chapter of dinosaur evolution. A study published in Science reports the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a newly ...

Deep in the desert of Niger, scientists have unearthed an unknown species of dinosaur, a giant fissvery of its kind in more ...

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...