The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America and one of the heaviest snakes on the ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

A bison gored a man Tuesday after a large group of visitors got too close to the animal in Yellowstone National Park, ...

Professor William Beinart debunks claims of white farmers being targeted in South Africa, highlighting the historical dispossession of Black South Africans from their land. He notes land reform ...

The United States Bureau of Land Management is planning to round up some Utah wild horses in the Muddy Creek Herd Management ...

Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but ...

In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometers tall covered much of Europe, Asia and North America, while much of ...

Across the continent, Indigenous peoples are methodically reasserting control over their land, laws ... a common Indigenous name for North America, from origin stories about the world being ...

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an ...

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...