The difficult history of one girl’s community unfolds in a world inspired by the humid swamps and bayous near ... she uncovers tales of child and animal abuse, accidental or murderous.

Grizzly bears, for example, are a subspecies of brown bear found in parts of North America. There are many different ...

Joining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch of forested wetland that, in hindsight, doesn’t really live up to the “dismal” part of its ...

NAIROBI ― A new killifish species, scientifically known as Nothobranchius sylvaticus, has been documented in seasonal swamps ...

Fossil vertebrae excavated during a mine dig in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever existed.

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

A gorilla known for her tickle fights was euthanized due to age-related health decline, a Colorado zoo said. A western Iowland “ gorilla icon ” named Roxie who was known by Cheyenne Mountain Zoo staff ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

When scientists stumbled across the aquatic animal ... swamps” and started wondering if these pools could be home to any Nothobranchius killifishes, a group of small fish that live in ...

A UK man who kept a pet alligator over a metre long in his back garden has been fined by a magistrate for keeping the exotic ...