Woodruff offers incredible facts about each species, including what they ate, where they lived and how they behaved. While the book includes new information about popular animals like woolly ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.

Though the zoo boasts more than 1,000 animals and more than 100 species ... Their closest relatives are badgers, weasels and wolverines (not the Hugh Jackman type!), and their fur has two layers ...

World Animal Protection notes that not only are otters adorable, but there are actually 13 species of them all over North America and other continents. Their closest relatives are badgers, weasels and ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books. Reach him via Katie Rohman at [email protected].

This forest-dwelling creature is the second-largest member of the weasel family in Pennsylvania ... the Game Commission’s Wildlife Note on the animal. Despite the name, it rarely consumes ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, ...

Two different groups of macaques have been spotted in Japan mounting sika deer. The behavior could be part of a shared ...

In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

The image has also served as an educational tool, drawing attention to the behaviors and interactions of different animal species in the wild. Image bia pixabay. This incredible photograph of a weasel ...

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