A military museum in North Yorkshire had a very different type of visitor today - one with long ears, four legs and an ...

The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

From WWII to the Jersey shore, find out the chilling details on some of the scariest shark attacks in history.

History isn’t all generals and politicians. Sometimes it’s a stray mutt or a pigeon with a mission that rewrites the script.

In one of its most unique episodes, Kings and Generals explores animals that altered the course of history. From Porphyrios, ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

Some animals are so rare, they are more like myths than living, breathing organisms. Take the Upemba lechwe, for example.

Snakes are often associated with "malevolence", "slyness" and "hidden unfriendly intentions", said the Dangerous Street Project, and they've appeared in propaganda for decades. Following the Japanese ...

Cincinnati Animal CARE has officially declared a code red status as the organization faces one of the the highest population ...

Wendy Taylor started West Place Animal Sanctuary in Tiverton for injured or abused animals after a fire at her home in 2003 ...

1855: A tornado — widely regarded to be the first documented to occur within the present-day city limits of Chicago — ...