STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Zoo is providing close encounters of the scaly kind with their special event, “Rattlemania.” First launched in Feb. 2018, “Rattlemania” offers an ...

Israeli police on Tuesday scoured the Mediterranean coast for a swimmer they fear may have been attacked by a shark in an area that has long seen close encounters between marine predators and ...

in an area that for decades has seen close encounters between marine predators and beachgoers who sometimes seek them out. A shiver of endangered dusky and sandbar sharks has been swimming close ...

The Dali String Quartet. Photo by Ryan Brandenberg. Great Barrington — Close Encounters with Music will present the Dali String Quartet performing a program of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Morales-Matos, ...