If you're an animal enthusiast, you probably know that the vast majority of animals prefer not to spend their lives in motion ...

Spoiler alert: I was indeed still in Ohio, just a part of it that refuses to conform to the “flat farmland” stereotype that the state often gets saddled with. Dundee Falls cascades down moss-covered ...

While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter This spring has not only been a wet one but has offered a phenomenon that has not routinely presented in my years as an outdoorsman. Three times during the ...

While large and venomous, timber rattlesnake bites are extremely rare, with the last recorded human fatality in Ohio ...

Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

Many folks in southern coastal areas know about strand feeding, the remarkable fish-catching behavior demonstrated by ...

It turns out some scary creatures aren't actually that scary. Here are nine animals that aren’t as dangerous as they look.

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

A resident of San Antonio is facing federal wildlife trafficking charges after authorities found two infant spider monkeys ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...