Native to the arctic waters of the northern hemisphere, the Bowhead whale can live for centuries, and now scientists think ...

Drafting a pet trust can be free, if you use an online template and get no legal guidance. The same thing might cost around $100 if you use an online service such as Legal Zoom that provides ...

According to NatureServe, an organization that keeps tabs on North American flora and fauna, more than 7,000 of those species ...

On Sunday, the Auburn athletics department named defensive coordinator DJ Durkin interim head coach. Durkin has two years of head-coaching experience at Maryland, where he was fired after ...

The recent escape of several research monkeys after the truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi interstate is the ...

Black vultures have killed and eaten several calves on Tom Karr’s cattle ranch in southeastern Ohio, a loss he says didn't happen two decades ago ...

The freshwater flatworm Stenostomum brevipharyngium is, by all accounts, a simple fellow. The worm is small and entirely soft ...

In her latest check-in with the Boston Public Art Triennial, WBUR's Amelia Mason visited Charlestown and Mattapan and saw two ...

Conservation efforts aim to bring the endangered Karner blue butterfly back to its former glory in Indiana Dunes National Park. ©Alexandra Lande/Shutterstock.com One of the animals that defines ...

But in the days since the monkeys escaped, authorities have left questions about the crash largely unanswered. It's still ...

U.S. Border Patrol officers seized more than 100 snakes, spiders, lizards and salamanders from a truck attempting to cross ...

A popular Halloween trend is to dress up pets in costumes- but what about the animals that don’t need costumes?Local oddity ...