(Johannesburg) – South African authorities have failed to protect whistleblowers, who expose corruption and criminal activities in government and state-owned enterprises, from attacks and killings, ...

Zoo staff say the female hawk and female turkey vulture share food, preen each other and have even attempted to raise eggs. Stan, a 20-year-old female turkey vulture (front), and Hunter, a 22-year-old ...

Iran’s top diplomat is in Turkey for talks as fear continues to grow that the U.S. might soon launch a major attack on Iran. The New York Times reports Trump has been presented in recent days with an ...

If you saw a vulture calmly walking beside a man, hopping onto his arm, and hanging around like a loyal pet, you’d assume it was a one-off stunt. But this is real life for a Brazilian animal trainer ...

Alex Gibney’s new documentary, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, premiered at Sundance yesterday, with Rushdie himself in attendance and an understandably heightened security presence ...

ANDOVER — Feathered friends spread their wings and perched in the limelight Saturday morning as folks got an up-close glimpse of three different raptors found in the skies above the Merrimack Valley.

Pioneering research by experts at the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney has shown that heart muscle cells regrow after a heart attack, opening up ...

Birds are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures — but a few of our feathered friends are truly bizarre — like these 25 weirdest birds in the world.

DENVER — Colorado has a few thousand mountain lions, but a mountain lion attack on a human is rare, and a fatality – like the woman who died in a suspected attack Thursday in Larimer County – is even ...

A solo hiker who authorities believe was killed by a mountain lion on a remote Colorado trail on New Year's Day was not the first person to encounter one of the predators in the area in recent weeks.

ISTANBUL — Istanbul police launched scores of simultaneous raids on Thursday, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks against ...