In February 1966, the Soviet space program launched the dogs Veterok and Ugolyok to beyond the protective Van Allen Belts, which they did to study the prolonged effects of space travel and the ...

Explore an underground zoo featuring rare animals such as baby black-and-white ruffed lemurs, kinkajous, porcupines, otters, giant snakes, and foxes. Join this wildlife adventure to meet some of the ...

A rare and awe-inspiring moment unfolded deep in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest when a wildlife expert captured footage of a "spirit bear." According to Outdoors, the white-furred subspecies ...

The natural world is home to some truly bizarre creatures, so strange yet fascinating that they seem more alien than Earth-born. Some are extremely rare, glimpsed only a handful of times due to ...

MacPhee (Race to the End), a paleomammalogist with the American Museum of Natural History, critically examines theories on the extinction of many huge vertebrate species over the past 50,000 years in ...

The dogged search for a bird that many people figured had gone extinct included torrential rains, washed-out bridges, swine flu, and unrelenting obsession. Known by locals as fotsimaso, or white eye, ...

The White House has often been home to plenty of beloved pets. Dogs and cats may dominate the spotlight, but over the years, an entire menagerie of unexpected animals has wandered its halls, surprised ...