Two gopher tortoises were spray painted with bright colors in Naples, Florida, causing a local conservancy to rush to their aid Conservancy of Southwest Florida An act of vandalism could have a ...

The natural world is full of wonders that often seem to defy belief. Some creatures are so extraordinary, they look as if they’ve leaped right out of ancient myths and legends. From bizarre deep-sea ...

The American Museum of Natural History has sent a team of scientists to the Solomon Islands equipped with “high-resolution underwater cameras, a submersible, and an on-board genomic sequencing lab.” ...

A heartless funeral-home director allegedly bilked customers out of more than $650,000 in pet-cremation services — giving them the ashes of random, unknown animals instead of their beloved critters’ ...

To show animals of distant locales to the public in centuries before photography, artists were sometimes enlisted to recreate exotic fauna through secondhand descriptions or some scrap of skin or ...

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