Utah’s Hogle Zoo is proud to announce Bornean orangutan Kawan (24) is expecting a baby in June. Hogle Zoo’s animal care and ...

Learn how gibbons’ rotating wrists and powerful grips let them soar through trees and navigate dense rainforest canopies with ease.

The largest venomous snakes in the world rule their respective domains with their sheer size, imposing presence, and ...

Serval Cats are slender, medium-sized wild felines native to sub-Saharan Africa, known for their exceptionally long legs, ...

Tales of a "Giant Woolly Rat" have been told for decades, yet no scientist had ever confirmed Mallomys istapantap was alive.

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ...

New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought their downfall.

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...

When the weather got colder, the beavers built up a stockpile of branches in the pond, saving them for later meals. As the ...

If you have ever broken a bone, you quickly learn two things: it hurts a lot, and bones are living tissue that takes time to ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Prosecutor Richard Wright described the crime as a "moronic mission" and the "arboreal equivalent of mindless thuggery." LONDON − A British court convicted two men of cutting down a tree in ...