From L.A. to San Diego to the Bronx, we rank the 20 largest zoos in the United States that you'll definitely want to see in ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a foraging troop, finally dispatching his bullet on his mark. It was a giant ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...

From that day forward, astronomers have officially classified Pluto as a “dwarf planet,” one of several ... how seemingly small and unimportant people can achieve greatness, if given the ...

The Utica Zoo launched a new Animal Experiences program last fall, offering guests an exclusive, behind-the-scenes ...

Rwanda waged the First Congo War against Zaire with the help of other African states (most significantly ... may have reached over three million people by 2004. Between 2002 and 2003, Rwanda ...

The celestial duo consists of a massive Be star, 12 times the mass of the Sun, and a white dwarf, a dense stellar remnant with a mass similar to our Sun. This rare pairing, found in the Small ...

Yet much of it is common among young people across Africa. Better educated than their parents and full of entrepreneurial ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true ...

At least 120 dangerous wild animals such as alligators, deadly snakes and European bison are among the exotic creatures being ...