Olympic champion Lucas Pinheiro Braathen was fastest in the first run of a World Cup giant slalom. World Cup leader Marco Odermatt was almost one second back in fifth at Kranjska Gora in ...

Other eye-catching species include the 140cm-tall jabiru stork, the peculiar-looking South American tapir and the yellow anaconda, a semi-aquatic snake that can grow more than 4m long – that's roughly ...

For just one or two nights each spring, spotted salamanders emerge from underground and go in search of vernal mating pools.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol's newest recruit has floppy ears, four legs and a powerful tool for finding people. Beau the ...

The North Dakota Highway Patrol's newest recruit has floppy ears, four legs and an amazing knack for finding people. Beau, a 12-week-old puppy, is joining a band of bloodhounds ...

Johan Siggesson documents elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park in remarkable black-and-white photographs.

A special screening of Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated feature “The Voice of Hind Rajab” was held on Tuesday at the United Nations Office at Geneva during a U.N. Human Rights ...

Brazil’s Pantanal region has the highest jaguar density on Earth, drawing camera-toting visitors to its riverbanks. Despite ...

They appear straight out of prehistory – and they are; the reptiles have survived mostly unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs. They are a soft shelled turtle with thick, black, rubbery skin where ...