People often appreciate fossils for the insights they reveal about ancient creatures that once roamed the Earth. At some ...

Repairs to a road at risk of collapse due to burrowing badgers are on hold for six months because of rules protecting the ...

Many animals around the world build hidden homes underground known as burrows. These shelters protect them from predators and ...

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

Bettongs may be small, but these Australian natives can crush hard nuts that would snap the jaws of much larger animals.

Animals are amazing. The fact that birds can mimic human voices and dogs can hear stuff we can’t is proof enough. But the proof goes way beyond those domestic examples. Animals can do all kinds of ...

The Burrowing owl population is thriving and growing on Cape Coral. The results for 2025 Cape Coral Burrowing Owl Census were announced on Aug. 6. When the counting concluded during the weekend of May ...

Development pushes burrowing owls out, Wild at Heart steps in Rapid development across the Phoenix area is forcing burrowing owls from their homes, but one local nonprofit, Wild at Heart, is on a ...

After missing the fairway at the par-5 fifth on Sunday, Bubba Watson called in a rules official in an attempt to take relief from an ant hill, leading to this epic exchange about the nature of ants as ...

The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. It is a story of ...