Two beloved sister lions who spent their lives side-by-side at Belfast Zoo have died at the age of 22. In a release published on March 6, the zoo, located in Northern Ireland, announced that it ...

More than two centuries ago, early explorers visiting the Seychelles Islands reported an unexpected sighting along the beaches and at river mouths: crocodiles. The sightings puzzled naturalists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animals are noisy. And their noises can travel a long way. But making sounds can be a double-edged sword: it can help them ...

A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe 20th-century bottlenecks are already showing signs of genetic recovery, challenging ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

New York City is known for Wall Street, crowded streets, and famous landmarks. Beyond that familiar image, its history includes buried ships beneath Manhattan, abandoned transit platforms, escaped zoo ...

Extinction does not always mean the last animal has died. This video explores three species that still exist but have effectively vanished from the ecosystems where they once dominated. From the South ...

Riverview Park and Zoo has played a vital role in expanding the population of the critically endangered Sulawesi forest turtle. Hatched on Feb. 9, Indy is the fifth successful hatchling to survive ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Earlier this year, workers built a concrete perimeter wall for a planned resort on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania. There’s scant public information about the Mantuli development, but the wall ...

Although the highly potent rat baits are restricted overseas, they have been controversially stocked on shelves alongside less harmful products by Bunnings, Coles, Woolworths, Mitre 10 and some IGA ...