The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) announced Jan. 6 that two sloth bear cubs were born ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

Part of the collection will be housed locally in the Huasteco Regional Museum AC, located in Ciudad Valles, the Huasteca's ...

Ecologists, communities and the government are restoring the Nilgiris’ grasslands and shola forests—reviving wildlife, water ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made at the bottom of Florida's Steinhatchee River, where divers uncovered a 500,000-year-old treasure trove of Ice Age fossils. This remarkable find includes ...

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

Over the last 100,000 years, 64 percent of large animal species have gone extinct. The loss of large animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths has been somewhat evenly spread over all ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

The zoo's partnership with Saudi Arabia's Royal Commission aims to create a conservation program similar to the zoo's ...

I’m crouching in a West African rainforest, staring at a bungalow-sized boulder. The humid air thrums with insects and ...

The Centre has recommended environmental clearance (EC) for the diversion of 874.924 hectares of forest land to extend iron ...