"[They] were informed to move away and nobody did." Onlooker captures photo of tourists getting dangerously close to large bison: 'Why aren't they arrested?' first appeared on The Cool Down.

While lions, tigers and their relatives can sometimes interbreed, these rare hybrids reveal as much about the limits of nature as they do about its possibilities.

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...

The journey to take this image was more than just another photographic adventure, it was the pursuit of a dream that had been with me for years.' ...

In the last few weeks, the bears have been showing some changes in their behaviors — signs of what keepers call “positive ...

Being able to reproduce both sexually and asexually gives the dragons an evolutionary edge, Garcia says. If no mate is handy, a female can bear sons parthenogenetically—and when they’re older, they ...

It’s not brutish human nature that prompts nasty posts and tweets, the author says. But how we evolved does play a role.

Citing national security, the Trump administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections for endangered animals—even if it could cause their extinction.

Bertie Gregory reflects on the secret yet crucial lives of bees – and why they could teach our politicians a thing or two ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should ...