There are only about 200 Visayan warty pigs left in the wild. Don’t panic. Edinburgh has a whole bunch of them up at the zoo.

The hippos regularly leave the water at night to graze. Onlooker captures stunning video of wild hippos walking down city street: 'Taking a stroll' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.

Fragments of a human skull may reveal the secrets of an ancient land, ruled by venomous Komodo dragons. The 140-000-year-old bone fragments were discovered buried in a now-submerged land in Indonesia.

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Everyone loves to be outdoors in the summer, and nobody can argue that Mother Nature is the world’s greatest artist.

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Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

There he converted to Christianity, and, tired of feeling like an outsider in Italy, he returned to North Africa to found a monastery. But the local bishops spotted his talents and he was soon ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation reaffirmed its dedication to ensuring that rural communities are not left behind in ...

The area used to look very different when human ancestors walked ... the elephant-like extinct Stegodon and water buffalo, while its rivers were teeming with fish, turtles, river sharks and hippos, ...