Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky — is ...

Former Cowlitz Indian Tribe chairman and spiritual leader Roy Wilson died early Tuesday morning at age 97, just days before the 25th anniversary of the tribe’s federal recognition on Thursday.

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Reports of baby pygmy hippos in Thailand and in Richmond, Virginia, have garnered much attention for their respective zoos, attracting many visitors. These cuties look like they are lovable little ...

At first, “rolos” – the Bogotános – were perplexed by Mini-Mal’s ingredients, from molluscs harvested in Pacific mangroves to ...

Close-up Photographer of the Year is open to all. The annual competition delivers another stunning selection of images from ...

The technology dates back to 1888 when Englishman Amos Herbert Hobson used alkali to process animal carcasses into ... Samper brought her ashes back to her native Colombia this past weekend ...

Weeks earlier he had crossed the treacherous Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, most of the time ... but others had already been eaten by animals and were mostly skeletons.

Smithsonian magazine contributor and Texas native Xander ... After Colombian police shot Escobar dead in December 1993, veterinarians removed the animals—except the hippos, which were deemed ...

Browse works from Monet, Degas, Rodin and O’Keefe as well as glass, ceramics, pre-Columbian art and an extensive ... peaceful walking paths and native birds. Head to the Big Lake and rent ...

Many animals have been wiped out by humans ... Since the early 2000s, it has been used by drug cartels from Colombia as a reliable transshipment point for cocaine shipments to the EU. Nevertheless, ...