Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, have had a rough go of it over the past ...

Scientists traced captive otters in Japan to the wilds of southern Thailand using DNA. Most otters in cafés were illegally ...

Officials captured footage of the otter with trail cameras. "These elusive creatures were once common here but disappeared ...

Skywatchers, get ready for April's full moon. The full moon is called the "pink moon" and is considered a hopeful sign of ...

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand to ...

There’s mounting evidence Everglades pythons can migrate north and west from South Florida. Have they invaded Palm Beach County?

Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts ...

CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Saola, often dubbed the “Unicorn of Asia,” is one of the world’s most mysterious ... other wildlife has led to collateral damage. Traps set for animals like ...

Singapore state investor Temasek, pan-Asian PE firm HOPU Investments and other existing backers have re-upped in the sixth funding round of Ceva Animal Health (Ceva), the world’s fifth largest animal ...