Baby tapir Ume adorably boops the camera with her snoot.

This baby tapir is too cute to handle.

Deep in the rain forest of Argentina, I harvested yerba mate, paddled the Iguazú River, and connected with an Indigenous ...

How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their ...

Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...

Every spring, the familiar songs of Wood Thrushes and warblers return to the parks and backyards of eastern North America.

Freshwater makes up less than three percent of Earth’s water supply but is home to almost half of all fish species. Puerto Rican mountain mullet reside in El Yunque National Forest. Known to the ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the regulation ...