I wrote a column on moles and recommended how to help you manage moles in your gardens. Moles and voles are not even in the same family. Voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, or meadow voles, are voracious ...

Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

Fatmuckets, pocketbooks, pigtoes and other unfortunately named and endangered invertebrates don’t receive the same level of funding or public sympathy as game species that make their home in The ...

Alan Toyne, who spent 14 years working at Bristol Zoo, raised two infant gorillas - including one in his own home. He has now published a memoir, Gorillas in Our Midst, about the "amazing" experience.

Start as a wriggly, water-breathing tadpole, transform into an adult that breathes air. This is the pattern followed by all our ...

SeaWorld is new home for orphaned walrus from Alaska The post-show experience for the new ride will feature an Arctic animal habitat, including Uki the walrus calf rescued by the Alaska SeaLife ...

Zookeepers at the North Carolina Zoo work to make the animals’ habitats as natural as possible. That includes large places to play, native plant life, and when ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Red Wolves are nearly extinct in the wild. A recently discovered canid in Texas may help save the wolves' declining numbers.

The Trump administration issued a proposed rule that environmental groups allege would end habitat protections for America’s endangered animals. The proposal from the Department of the Interior and ...

“This definition of “harm” recognizes that wild animals cannot survive if the habitat they rely on for food, shelter, and raising young is obliterated,” said Johanna Hamburger, director and senior ...

In a desperate attempt to stop U.S. Army Corps of Engineer contractors from removing live trees and waterfall boulders Saturday from Lauren Wilkie’s river property in Cedar Mountain, she jumped into ...