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For more than 60 years, the building set for closure has been home to the zoo's fruit bats, foxes, sloths, porcupines, armadillos, and other animals.
Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly ...
‘Jaws’ meets ‘Silence of the Lambs’ in ‘Dangerous Animals’ A serial killer targets the wrong surfer in Sean Byrne’s latest horror thriller.
Carnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. So Why Have They Never Grown Larger? Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through ...
Tennessee law states just which animals can be legally kept as a pet and which only belong in the zoo or the wild.
Officials seized over 300 animals from West Coast Game Park Safari following an investigation into animal care violations.
A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.
Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.
Adding to a laundry list of energy actions by President Donald Trump, the US Department of the Interior (DoI) will ease pressure regulations on offshore operators in the popular Paleogene play in ...
By the dawn of the Paleogene, ground-adapted features appeared more commonly than once imagined. Observations of these ancient bone fragments suggest that mammals responded to plant-driven changes by ...
Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, and protection.
Paleogene-age Wilcox reservoirs extend from onshore to deepwater offshore Gulf of Mexico. Discovery wells delineated the play and oil production from ultradeepwater Wilcox reservoirs ...