Wildland fires have been a part of the Rocky Mountain ecosystems for millions of years, resulting from lightning strikes, volcanic eruptions, and spontaneous combustion. The plants and animals evolved ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have discovered another rainforest resident deep within Brazil’s palm-dense Juruá ...

By Liz Kimbrough When a toucan plucks fruit from a tree in the Amazon Rainforest, it’s doing more than just finding lunch.

If you live in Northern Michigan or most of Canada and Western United States, then you have most likely seen one of these ...

When we think about animals, we often focus on their sharp claws, long necks, or colourful feathers. But there’s one part of ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Fast animals get plenty of attention for their incredible feats of speed. But what about animals ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Most of us are familiar sloths, the ...