Blank Park Zoo says addax, once widespread across the Sahara Desert, have been driven to the brink of extinction by years of illegal poaching and habitat loss.

At the turn of the 20th century, the great zoological gardens of Paris, London and New York City would have been hardly recognizable by today’s standards. Animals large and small—those that had ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

After his video and images of coyote pups in Graceland Cemetery went viral, the author offers insight on these longtime ...

There was a time twins were viewed as abominations in some areas now part of Southeast Nigeria. Such children were killed at birth. The intervention of Mary Slessor (1848 – 1915), a Scottish ...

Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see firsthand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the larger ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park. Long before Yellowstone became ...