The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Camels, zebras and ostriches took to the race track in between nine thoroughbred horse races to celebrate the first Friday of ...

Learning how to identify animal tracks will help you understand what animals live nearby, how they use the area, what they eat, and more.

Winter is an especially great time to go hunting for animal tracks in the snow. In summer, animals' prints can be difficult to spot on packed dirt trails. But snow preserves them, allowing hikers ...

You never forget the first time you sense a tiger nearby. The jungle suddenly hushes, every leaf and branch humming with ...

Tracks from animals of the cat family, including domestic cats and bobcats, are a relatively easy pattern to recognize. Their tracks are typically rounded with four toes on both the back and front ...

Rock faces in Namibia are decorated with hundreds of stone-age images not only of animals and human footprints, but also of animal tracks. These have been largely neglected to date as researchers ...

Chris Wellens, of the Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center in Laconia, shows how to identify animal tracks in the winter.

Location is key to animal tracks and what the most common footprints are. Jacob, for example, lives on the West Coast and frequents mudflats where she will see wildlife in intertidal regions ...

Dayton MetroParks ranger helps us understand the significance of animal tracks and signs! Listen and learn the differences between a footprint and a paw print in this video led by a Dayton ...

Track sizes may vary, as well as the placement of the tracks, which depend on whether an animal is walking, running, trotting or jumping. You may also use nearby scat for other identification markers.

Rock faces in Namibia are decorated with hundreds of stone-age images not only of animals and human footprints, but also of animal tracks. These have been largely neglected to date as researchers ...