New reports commissioned by the Oregon State Legislature say that state schools need to "dramatically increase" their funding ...

The Sri Lanka Police announced in a Facebook post that six elephants died and two were injured after a passenger train ...

Ume is a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. Since then she has been ...

A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move ...

Another universe-defining law is that baby elephants are adorable beyond comprehension, and looking at one will give you an immediate case of cuteness overload. At least that was our experience with ...

Six wild elephants were killed when a passenger train collided with a herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, a wildlife ...

Desert Elephants” is the new IMAX film Phelan and his team have created, following the journey of baby elephant Little Foot as she survives the many challenges of the desert with her herd. The film is ...

Wildlife veterinary officers are treating a female elephant and an injured calf who survived in the city of Giritale, Sri ...

Johari, a 20-year-old giraffe and beloved part of an Upstate New York animal park for 6 years, died suddenly over the weekend ...

The Brockhouse Collection, one of the most comprehensive collections of taxidermy in the Midwest, will be donated to three ...

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic exposure forced the closure of the South Dakota museum where they had been ...