Standing up to 3 metres tall and weighing hundreds of kilograms, Madagascar’s elephant bird was among the largest birds to ...

MENDON – Southwick's Zoo is mourning the death of Thelma, one of their white rhinoceroses, after she unexpectedly passed away ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

New research indicates "Homo floresiensis" probably wasn't hunting big game or using fire on Flores Island, suggesting the ...

To mark 200 years of ZSL, the charity which manages the zoo, a year-long programme of events is underway, connecting ...

A new Science Advances study suggests the Flores "hobbits" were scavengers, not hunters, reshaping scientists' understanding ...

"Most people are good people; they'd never dream of going to Starbucks and ordering a latte plus a dead elephant." ...

In 1996, Kermit the Frog donned the captain's hat as Captain Abraham Smollett in Muppet Treasure Island, hopping through the ...

From lost legends to overlooked history, these Missouri stories reveal incredible tales that sound almost too strange to be ...

Washington has more than a few unique state symbols, including an official Washington dance (the square dance) and tartan. Several are worth a day or weekend trip.

Fifty years ago, it would have seemed strange for a paleontologist to write a book about birds, but today we know why the pairing makes sense. Birds are dinosaurs: it’s as literally true as saying ...