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Thanks to the dedicated actions of several conservation groups, the eastern indigo snake is making a comeback in Florida!
Learn how fossil footprints prove pterosaurs walked the Earth long before they vanished from the sky.
The longest-living animals on Earth are timeless creatures with unique adaptability and ageing mechanisms, allowing them to ...
Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, ...
Onassis, a giant Amazon River turtle, has lived at the zoo since 1969. No one knows exactly how old she is, but she's still ...
A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.
The Philadelphia Zoo has sprouted five massive plant displays of giant animals and insects. At the entrance is a huge butterfly sculpture with outspread wings embedded with 3,200 tiny plants.