In 1826 Sir Stamford Raffles founded The Zoological Society London (ZSL) as the world's first scientific zoo for the study of living animals. Two years later it opened to Fellows of the Society plus ...

Kali River Rapids is one of the only water rides in Disney World, and the fact that you (usually) get soaked when you ride ...

Wondering about the weirdest animals in the world? We've listed the Top 31 here — including the axolotl, aye-aye, blobfish, ...

A City Council staffer was detained Monday by ICE while attending what Council Speaker Menin described as a routine immigration hearing.

State Senate Democrats advanced a package of election bills to strengthen voter protections and safeguard election workers.

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...

These days, it’s common knowledge that birds are living dinosaurs. Victorian naturalists proposed the notion after spotting similarities between dinosaur fossils and contemporary bird skeletons. But ...