Zeveloff The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as ...

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

From Maine to Florida, the endangered, prehistoric fish is rebounding, but a recent study shows just how vulnerable the U.S.

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

Dr. Samuel I. Zeveloff is a professor of zoology at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of the book Mammals of the Intermountain West (University of Utah Press, 1988) and the ...

It’s ironic that it took the approval of a foreign emperor who had just conquered Napoleon to restore luxury status to ...

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little ...

Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

Researchers studied Old Norse literature and archaeological evidence to shed new light on women's experiences of pregnancy ...

In 2010, construction crews working in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a Revolutionary War-era gunboat buried deep ...

With plenty of artificial nectar available, Anna’s hummingbirds have expanded their range northward and their beaks have ...