RACHEL NUWER

The curious origins of the Athenaeum, a library on a nondescript Midtown block that is devoted to the psychedelic experience.

The animals, from a financially struggling private herd in South Africa, have been sold to a conservation group and will be released into the wild.

A 661-pound stingray caught in the Mekong was tagged and tracked. The data is giving scientists new insight into a fragile ecosystem.

New research shows a conservation strategy can disrupt the animals’ social networks.

Videos of both captive and wild nonhuman primates suggest an enjoyment of the dizzy buzz that comes from whirling in circles.

While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz...

Critically endangered species and ones banned from international trade are among the hundreds of types birds, reptiles and mammals that researchers identified at 142 animal...

Warming temperatures in one part of the world seem to have driven down the parasite population, suggesting another unexpected way that climate change harms ecosystems.

Water competition, termites and poisons have all been credited with causing the formations in an African desert’s vegetation, but researchers say a new study discounts...

In a country where wildlife trafficking already runs rampant, conservationists fear that ransoming of animals may become a common tactic used by criminals.