Come Jan. 1, the Humane Rescue Alliance, the District’s longtime nonprofit partner, will hand off the city’s shelter and all animal control services to the D.C. government and its new partner, a ...

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A new study suggests monkeys can identify snakes by their scales, and know to fear them, even when those scales aren't on a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Penn State football scratched and clawed and ran through one of the best defenses in the nation here in Lucas Oil Stadium. It just couldn't catch up and stay with the undefeated, No.

Experience two of SoCal's stunning desert landscapes—the low Colorado to the east, and the mountainous Mojave to the ...

The Giant Koala is one of Australia’s best-known big things, situated on the Western Highway at Dadswell Bridge between ...

In 1875, when Nevada was still in its infancy as a state, the seventh session of the Legislature created a fund to pay ...

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According to Guo Ming, research librarian at the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, dragon totems began to be presented on jade during the Hongshan culture period. More ...

The Wilds is like the love child of a safari park and a conservation center, with a dash of Midwestern charm thrown in for ...

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