Vulnerable species — and the impact of the facility on their habitat and well-being — are at the core of a legal fight.

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Melton turned, laughed, and kept her quick pace. Soon she disappeared over a crest in the gravel hiking trail that wound ...

Activists and outdoorspeople insist the human, pollutive impact of the detention center imperils landscape and wildlife, not the other way around.

Perhaps the wildest place in the South can be found between the levees of the lower Mississippi River. Quapaw Canoe Company ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released 50 years ago and became a cult classic that inspires comedy to this day. Here's what fans told NPR the film means to them.

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Scientists found a “secretive” pregnant creature on a mountain in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In a mountain forest of southeastern China, a ...

Hunter Blake Daugherty said the animal was clearly the most dominant alligator in the area, or "the big guy" in the lake.

Scientists found a 2-foot-long predator with colorful eyes in Tibet and discovered an “extremely rare” new species, a study said. Photo from Y.H. Xu via Xu, Nguyen, Wang, Zhang, Poyarkov, Wei, Vogel, ...

The fossil was dated to the Triassic period, between 252 and 201 million years ago. This specific fossil is about 241 million years old, making it 3 to 7 million years older than any lepidosaur found ...