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Watch a slow-motion video of a tentacled snake lie in wait and scare its prey into escaping right into its mouth ...

A new video from conservation nonprofit Save Vietnam's Wildlife shows the plight of the world's only scaled mammal, the ...

The National Zoo gets a new state of the art Elephant Community Center complete with 8,943 square meters of romping room ...

Ornithologist Carla Dove explains how the microscopic structure of a bird's feather can help identify the species and at the ...

MS Fram has just crossed the Arctic Circle, so far north that the sun practically never sets. To celebrate, the crew stage a ...

Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton discusses a research trip to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in Panama, where ...

In the Arctic regions of Norway, researchers track down reindeer to measure how the warming winters affect the species at ...

With hundreds of new uranium mining claims filed within just a few miles of Grand Canyon National Park, a proposed new law ...

While camouflaged on the ocean floor off the coast of Israel in the Red Sea, octopods use their arms to grab unsuspecting ...

After molting (note the discarded shell in the background), a black-backed land crab struggles to move its flimsy new ...

In Panama, researchers recorded army ants crafting living bridges to take the most efficient route along the forest floor.