Photographer Wim van den Heever scans the image that his camera trap, triggerable by motion, has captured. It lays bare the tattered skeleton of an abandoned building in Kolmanskop, Namibia, a ...

ABILENE, TX — Families gathered on Saturday for an emotional farewell to Uhuru, a southern black rhinoceros who arrived at the Abilene Zoo in 2023. Zookeepers insist that Uhuru's relocation will place ...

Studies show that even gentle post-meal movement can influence blood sugar control and gut-brain signaling, helping the body process nutrients more efficiently. A couple takes a sunset stroll.

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna species, the woolly rhinoceros. When researchers dissected the frozen ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach contents of a naturally mummified Pleistocene wolf pup from Siberia. As its ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct ...

Animals in captivity can end up with some unusual neighbors —surprising encounters. In a naturalistic rendition of David vs. Goliath, a 28-pound Reeves’s muntjac named Tata, a small deer species ...

In much of Africa, limited and unreliable grid coverage means many depend on diesel generators to power their homes and businesses. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, there are an estimated seven million ...

Countries under the international treaty to protect migratory animals have proposed increasing protections for 42 species. These include numerous seabirds, the snowy owl, several sharks, the striped ...

It took ten years for Wim van den Heever to capture his perfect shot. After noticing paw prints and scat in an abandoned mining town along the coast of southern Namibia, he saw an opportunity to snap ...

Gary Busey has been sentenced to two years probation over a sexual offense at a 2022 horror convention. The sentence was passed down during a virtual hearing in which the Buddy Holly Story actor did ...