A Missouri conservation area named “Monkey Mountain” received its name from early settlers after the Lewis and Clark expedition.

A scientist has discovered a hopping treasure trove -- 16 new species of grasshoppers living in the thorny scrubs of U.S. and Mexican deserts.

Near a campsite in southeastern Africa, a “golden”-eyed creature sat in the sand and called out with “high-pitched notes.” Its “cryptic” looks and “poorly studied” home helped it go largely overlooked ...

In The Place for History, a bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the ...

PBS Nova explained how a small terrestrial bird was able to survive the devastating asteroid that caused a mass extinction ...

Otto Widmann documented the bird in the Missouri Bootheel in 1896. Widmann’s contribution to history isn’t limited to this songbird.