Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory ...

But 2020 hasn’t all been bad. Here are 10 ways wildlife benefited: ...

Videos of friendly, gentle foxes approaching humans, seemingly wanting to play, are going viral on TikTok. But just because a ...

MPAs are like national parks and have varying rules about how much human activity is allowed. In fully protected zones like ...

New video shows sharks swimming through hoops, and picking them up with their noses. It sure looks like they are having fun.

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making their communication more elaborate and nuanced than previously realized.

Since 2006, the project has photographed 17,000 species in the world’s zoos, aquariums, and wildlife sanctuaries.

The heroes who saved the world's last tigers Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger population was under dire threat. In this beautifully photographed feature, National ...

The old ways still linger in Romania’s Southern Carpathian mountains, where bears and wolves wander the forests and slow-paced villages stud the hills.

In a small town in Oregon when a father wolf went missing recently, no details were available about his death. All that’s known is that someone killed him, and, based on previous cases, it’s unlikely ...

Speculative evolution explores how dinosaurs might have evolved into intelligent, tool-using species, but fossil evidence suggests such brain growth was highly unlikely over 165 million years.