The U.S. Forest Service said a forest fire at a North Carolina national park is under control. The Forest Service said the Uwharrie Trail from Joe Moffitt Trailhead to Walkers Creek Trailhead will be ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, N.C. — A section of the Uwharrie Trail is closed after a wildfire broke out in the Kings Mountain area of the Uwharrie National Forest. The closure affects the trail from the Joe ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is home to more than 2,200 animals across its campuses in D.C. and Virginia. The zoo was the first in the United States to hire a ...

Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

A camera trap set up in the forest recorded moments of wildlife activity. Animals were captured in their natural environment, behaving freely and without disturbance. The footage provides a quiet ...

Deep in the forest, my hidden camera recorded a rare glimpse of wild animal behavior, offering an intimate look into the secret lives of woodland creatures. 'Robbing them': Treasury slams states over ...

Belinda Medlyn receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the NSW government, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Bush Heritage Australia, Arid Recovery, Australian Forest and Wood ...

(CNN) — Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa about 60,000 years ago. The find marks the oldest known poison arrows ...

PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that years of implacable hounding by the world’s paparazzi turned a ...

Judy Rowen looks for a wood duck while participating in the Galveston Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 16, 2025. Stepping slowly through the brush of a small wooded area on the east end of Galveston ...