On 21 August 2017, the afternoon light at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, began to fade. For the people gathered there, the approaching darkness was an astronomical spectacle.

A woman was injured in a fire in Connewitz during the night. At the zoo, a decision is being made on what to call the baby ...

It is an awkward position – and a vulnerable one in a landscape where predators are looking for their next meal. An animal ...

The Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish responds to injury, starvation, and heat by transforming back into its juvenile form.

The zoo said its animal care staff responded immediately and veterinarians kept a close eye, but Nguvu's condition eventually ...

Martha Robbins arrived in the mountains of Uganda in 1998. A behavioral ecologist, she came to study a troop of gorillas in the misty forests of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Low-lying clouds ...

Cyclospora, the parasite that has sickened thousands this summer in the U.S., requires time in the human digestive tract to ...

When we picture the Sahara Desert, we imagine the ultimate wasteland: a vast, scorching ...

A baby giraffe is fighting for her life at a zoo in Kansas. The female reticulated giraffe calf, named Milani, was recently born via cesarean section—a procedure no known giraffe calf has ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. © Kansas City Zoo The post Giraffes Can't Hide from Storms — So They Do This Instead appeared ...

Researchers showed each giraffe the contents of several containers, which held varying numbers of carrots, then added extra pieces to one of them. Afterward, the animal would choose a container to get ...

Keystone Safari in Mercer County has welcomed two orphaned giraffe calves. The 144-acre zoo in Grove City announced on Facebook on Thursday that it's caring for Tallulah and Delilah, two calves who ...