Families can enjoy nightly Halloween fun at Riverbanks Zoo through Oct. 30, with proceeds supporting animal care and conservation. Tropical Storm Melissa spaghetti models show chances of striking ...

Tombouctou (Timbuktu) is populated by Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Moorish people, and is about 15km north of the River Niger. It is also at the intersection of an east-west and a north-south ...

PRINCETON — Animals from Bar C Ranch’s petting zoo made a stop at the Ace Hardware parking lot in Princeton on Friday to give area residents a chance to meet and interact with them. Ace Hardware and ...

DEBATE? A NEW LAWSUIT AGAINST THE PITTSBURGH ZOO AND AQUARIUM, AN ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP, IS DEMANDING THE RELEASE OF ITS ELEPHANTS. THE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT ALLEGES THE ELEPHANT SPACE IS, QUOTE, ...

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo shut their doors Sunday as the government shutdown enters its third week, the Smithsonian Institution posted on its website. The Smithsonian Institute’s 19 ...

The National Zoo and National Air and Space Museum called off their popular annual Halloween kids’ events, a disappointment for many D.C.-area families as the government shutdown hit two weeks with no ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out the relationships and adaptations of these “absolutely bonkers” herbivores ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

Elephants at the Oregon Zoo got to crush and eat giant pumpkins to the delight of a crowd. The Squishing of the Squash is the Oregon Zoo’s annual festive fall animal enrichment activity for the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Do you like crowds? If so, this is THE weekend for you as it's the final days of the 2025 South Carolina State Fair AND the Gamecocks are back at home at Williams-Brice for a midday ...

WASHINGTON — The pandas at the National Zoo will find themselves without their usual adoring crowds Sunday when the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and research centers close their doors to the ...