All year long, they’ve been collecting cardboard for the big day. And on Friday, Feb. 28, they will get to showcase their ...

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

Tu, the Oregon Zoo’s newborn elephant calf — weighing in at an adorable 210 pounds. Heidi Rahn, the zoo’s director, joins ...

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...

Yellowstone to Yosemite: Kevin Costner speculates the reason behind Teddy Roosevelt's 'disappearing act' ...

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In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

A giant fossil skull from Kashmir paves way to unlocking their mysteries. Like big, tall trees in old-growth forests, older animals are irreplaceable. Pulling them out leaves the ecosystem less ...

The director Charles Burnett’s deeply humane, singular film from 1999, starring James Earl Jones, is finally receiving a theatrical release. By Manohla Dargis Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy ...

I WROTE last week of the various pieces of good advice supplied by my hotel receptionists, the assistant manager and various guards at ...

Xiangshan derives its name from its external shape (“xiang” means elephant in Chinese) and is located at the south-eastern section of Xinyi District. Its composition is mainly sandstone, akin to that ...