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Reptile Discovery Center staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Washington, D.C., are mourning the loss of Murphy, a 26-year-old male Komodo ...

Hopefully, you are surviving another holiday season and the snow blankets the woods and farms throughout most of the country.

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

A public meeting will be held Feb. 27 to discuss the impacts of the discovery of chronic wasting disease in two deer in ...

Growing as a cattle producer involves admitting that you don't have it all figured out, according to Minnesota State ...

You may hear coyotes calling this winter as they seek mates, breed. Here's what to know about the Michigan predators.

With their pristine fur and dark almond eyes, arctic foxes are possibly one of the most beautiful mammals to have lived in ...

The chief executive of Europe's largest airline has put customers on notice it will prosecute disruptive passengers as ...

Other new research this month looked at snow leopards, wolves, wildlife crossings, newly discovered species, and … scorpion ...

Ron Johnson has ridden a whale, been accepted into an indigenous tribe in a Pacific Island nation and curated exhibits for ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...