Early dinosaurs that grew to different sizes as adults had growth patterns closer to those of lizards and turtles than to other, later dinosaurs, new research reveals.
Years of civil war and rampant poaching threaten hippos in Africa's Lake Edward. Fish stocks, which depend on hippo dung, have also plummeted, hurting local fishers.
Skull Island, the mythical home of the great ape King Kong, is supposed to lie in the Indian Ocean—but its bizarre assortment of wildlife seems to be from out of this world.
The Arctic's killer whales are highly contaminated with man-made chemicals and are now considered to be the region's most toxic creatures, a new study reports.
The fossil of a previously unknown bird that waded in dinosaur-era lakes has been found in China, providing new clues to the evolution of modern birds, experts say.
Imagine a 9-foot (2.7-meter) whale tooth that was flexible, strong, and capable of remote data-sensing. A dentist says that may describe the mysterious spiral tusks of Arctic narwhals.
Mixing methods of an FBI dragnet with a San hunting party, researchers are using digitized animal prints to track and monitor rhinos and other endangered species.
Researchers have determined that an ancient giant ape—which might have been the closest thing to a real King Kong—lived at the same time and in roughly the same place as early humans.
Researchers have finished mapping the genome of the domestic dog, revealing clues about the animal's past and insights that could be used to fight disease in both dogs and humans.
