If you care about Florida’s native turtles, nesting birds, and wild spaces, this story will hit close to home. Nile monitor lizards — powerful, fast-moving carnivores that can grow up to 7 feet long — ...

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Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...

"They're very wild, they're very active. They don't make good pets at all. They don't calm down." ...

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

You've heard of yoga with kittens, and goats, and maybe even reindeer… but what about a bunch of pythons and one baby ...