Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study ...

Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the ...

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

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Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

Amidst a comeback for the red-cockaded woodpecker — the South’s not-always-welcome neighbor — a new legal status and ...

The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird ...

There are 45 different species of Iguanidae in the Caribbean and the tropical, subtropical and desert areas of North, Central, and South America, including the marine iguanas of the Galapágos and the ...

How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji Fijian ... that it dawns how unique it is that some animals manage to disperse across it." Biologists have long disagreed ...

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, officials say.