Eleven endangered skinks released into a gated community in Victoria's Alpine national park will soon become 13, when Omeo, one of the females, gives birth in March. One of Australia's only alpine ...

Forget everything you know about standard museum curation, because this expansion has you managing a full-blown wildlife sanctuary inside the stately manor of Wiggy Silverbottom. The eccentric ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

Until Michigan lawmakers intervened, incidents at Michigan zoos involving a raccoon-turned-trespasser and an aggressive pygmy hippo threatened breeding programs zoo leaders describe as critical to ...

During World War II, the Nazi regime launched the Lebensborn Program, a state-sponsored effort to control reproduction and engineer a so-called "racially pure" generation. Women deemed genetically ...

The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) hosted a regional breeders organization workshop at Churchill Downs on Wednesday, November 12, to identify best practices ...

CHICAGO — A polar bear born in the Toledo Zoo over a decade ago is preparing for a new adventure. Siku, who was born at the zoo in 2009, will soon leave Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo for the Henry Vilas ...

Fifteen young New England cottontail rabbits born at a New York City zoo have been released into the wild in Maine as part of an effort to save the only rabbit species native to New England from ...