"Seatbelt Check." Funny Nature Finalist. I was on a safari on the Maasai Mara in Kenya and was about to record a female ...

Thousands of dead fish are washing ashore and people are falling ill too, as officials investigate possible sources of contamination.

For a male black-coated wolf that lived in Yellowstone National Park the list of injuries revealed by his skeleton was extensive. The tip of his tail was cocked at an odd angle after being broken; ...

Over the past week, hundreds of thousands of frogs stirred from hibernation and started traveling in large groups at night.

Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, newly hatched sea turtles emerged on a Gabonese beach to embark on the ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...

New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...

Wild eastern turkeys are known for strutting and their trademark gobbling sound to attract females during mating season.

Often treated as throwaway pets, hermit crabs can live 50 years. Mary Akers, a self-taught expert, wants people to appreciate ...

As temperatures warm up and summer days approach, snakes are emerging from their dens after sheltering from the cold winter ...

Being able to reproduce both sexually and asexually gives the dragons an evolutionary edge, Garcia says. If no mate is handy, a female can bear sons parthenogenetically—and when they’re older, they ...

This extensive coastline harbors rich and diverse marine ecosystems that sustain a variety of fish species, marine mammals, and coral reefs. For millions of Somali coastal residents, these waters are ...