The immature juveniles are practicing for the big show when more adult elephant seals arrive on the beaches for breeding ...

Animal teeth serve purposes beyond eating. Sperm whales use teeth to grip prey. Narwhals possess a unique tusk for competition. African elephants empl ...

Keonjhar: A 22-year-old man died from injuries sustained in an attack by an elephant in Badudighera village under under ...

A new study tells a rare story of ecological resilience but also warns of troubling declines in key prey species.

To build their visual dictionary, the researchers examined two hours of video footage each of 25 wild octopuses in a variety of habitats. Based on this footage, they determined four basic ways that an ...

Wire snares are among the most ruthless threats to Zimbabwe’s wildlife, indiscriminately harming animals from elephants to antelope and even birds. These snares are often set illegally by poachers ...

For the late 18th century poet William Blake, the tiger was an emblem of contradiction and ferocity. The one he conjured up ...

I contend that wronged women do not die. They live on as witches, goddesses, spirits, echoes and stories. In the Quran, murdered girls speak in the hereafter too. The book of books says that on the ...

A remarkable fossil in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection reveals that the ancestors of modern flightless ...

With more than 350,000 described species, and many more still waiting to be discovered, beetles are among the most diverse ...

Animal trafficking threatens endangered species around the world. Tech companies and conservationists are joining forces to ...

The recent survey of saltwater crocodiles in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve and the findings show that that a richer and more inclusive, vision of conservation in India is possible and necessary ...