Part of the joy of hiking is the sense of exploration, so forget your usual trails and check out one of these lesser-known, ...

Ringtail is Arizona’s state mammal, designated in 1986 to highlight regionally tied symbols. Ringtails are nocturnal, desert-adapted raccoon-like carnivores about the size of a house cat with a ringed ...

WHEN I WAS 21, my goal was to kill a bighorn sheep solo. In preparation, I took off most of the fall to hunt, and I went in a week before the season to scout British Columbia’s East Kootenay mountains ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California wildlife officials now allow mountain lions to be euthanized when they threaten endangered bighorn ...

Like the majority of Colorado’s big game species, the success of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep is up against habitat loss and disturbances, a changing climate and growing recreation and human pressure.

Chris Fields, CMO of AI-powered age verification start-up Yoti, giving a demonstration of the company's age verification technology at their offices in London. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe’s population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitting the Black Death from infected rats to millions of people. Another, ...

In the 1960s, the state of New Mexico released a species called Aoudad. Now, both New Mexico and Texas are focused on reintroducing Big Horned Sheep. However, Aoudad, introduced from the 1940s onwards ...