So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strateg­ically located square kilometres. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson pulled off the Louisiana ...

On a routine wildlife survey in a forest reserve in southwest China, scientists caught a weasel that turned out to be a species no one had recorded before. The animal, now named Mustela mopbie, is the ...

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is caring for the young animals at its Nairobi Nursery and plans to return them to the wild once the rhino and zebra are ready Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She ...

A baby animal’s size at birth is often relative to the size of the species itself, so when sizes are disproportionate, it can be quite a shock. One such animal is the baby swordfish, whose larvae are ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., has announced one of its elephants is pregnant, the first time a baby elephant will be born at the zoo in 25 years. The zoo says 12-year-old Nhi ...