World Hippo Day 2026 delivers a clear message: strength alone does not ensure survival. With meaningful conservation efforts and continued action, future generations may still witness hippos resting ...

Earth’s continents are not fixed in place. They drift, collide, and break apart over hundreds of millions of years, and new research suggests the next great reunion could create conditions so extreme ...

India's rich fossil heritage reveals ancient life, from dinosaur nesting grounds in Gujarat to marine fossils in the ...

As snow powers the winter Olympic games, you probably underestimate the simple snowflake. For starters, snow isn't ...

With up to 200,000 taken from the wild each year, the pangolin's evolutionary superpowers have made it both ...

It is firmly winter right now, and we can all feel it. The temperature is chilly, sometimes dipping into the negatives, with cold winds and plenty of snow. Living in western New York, you get used to ...

Ranging mostly in forested lands, especially in mixed deciduous-coniferous forests throughout Minnesota’s northern third, fishers are also found in other not-so-typical habitats.

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

Our yard bunny has no secrets now that there’s snow on the ground. We can tell where he or she has gone overnight and where ...

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...