The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

Red grouse is endemic across Britain and Ireland, being a different species from willow ptarmigan. The males exhibit striking red colouration with prominent combs attached to their faces.

It happened early Tuesday ...

With the dropping temperatures and wind chill—doctors say no one should be outside for extended periods of time.

Experts spent months tracking 6.5-foot Aesculapian snakes around the country, trying to discover why non-native species have ...

The “Pam Rock Act” ( SB 572 ), filed by Tampa Republican Sen. Jay Collins, was named after U.S. Postal Service carrier Pam ...

While the small 6-metre x 150-metre nets were designed last century to keep sharks away from beaches, they regularly fail to ...

From venomous spines to spike-covered genitalia, creatures around the world have unique features that set them apart.

The world's longest venomous snake ... it faces a high threat of extinction; Luzon King Cobra is a species that occurs only on the Luzon Island, Philippines, where it is at risk of habitat ...

Four critically endangered African penguin chicks hatched at Mystic ... It’s a significant moment for a population that has seen a dangerous decline. “The successful hatching of these four chicks ...

The world's largest turtle species, which are known as leatherback turtles, occasionally visits British Water. Their ...

More than a century has passed since the last sighting of a South American tapir, a species previously believed ... They sometimes run to the water to escape dangerous predators, such as jaguars ...