The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute celebrated the birth of a litter of endangered black-footed ...

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...

There are nearly 250 species of wolf spiders in the U.S. and Canada. These spiders don’t spin webs to catch their prey.

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets last week. Three-year-old ...

Great eared nightjars live on the forest floor, remaining motionless throughout the day, camouflaged among leaf litter and ...