Suck’s Lake in Grand Island has been named an affiliate of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. Trees: Fall Fiesta maple, Green Mountain sugar maple, Multi Stem Heritage birch, Autumn Gold ginkgo, ...

Little Leaf has been traveling the country for the past 6 years, her owner said. Some goats only dream of greener pastures, but one has found them in 41 states and counting. Little Leaf, an American ...

Ages ago, when I first got started in education, I worked at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve. One of the many research projects I helped educate others about involved experiments on how ...

Trevor Evans peers into a wooden nest box. “Ah, somebody’s awake,” he says with satisfaction as he pulls out a tiny, wriggly scrap of fur with a long tail – a thumb-sized mountain pygmy-possum ...

Deep in South American rainforests lives the pygmy marmoset, the world's smallest monkey. This tiny primate, weighing just 119 grams, thrives along riverbanks. Its unique diet of tree sap and insects, ...

A new baby pygmy hippo was born at John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is the fourth pygmy hippo born in a U.S. zoo in the last year, which is significant for the endangered species. Pygmy ...

The John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids welcomed its first pygmy hippo calf on Sept. 3. Only 22 institutions in North America are home to the endangered species that went viral with Moo Deng's birth last ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s here! The John Ball Zoo says Penelope, a pygmy hippo, birthed a calf on Wednesday. The unnamed baby weighs 11 pounds and is the first pygmy hippo calf born at the zoo ...

AS WE BEGIN the month of September on Monday,we are but a few weeks from autumn and then the winter season. These are the seasons of “Big Projects” around your yard, so let me prepare you for any ...

The genome of a small, remarkable sea horse offers a surprising lesson in nature’s creativity. Origins The genome of a small, remarkable sea horse offers a surprising lesson in nature’s creativity.

In rough, boulder-strewn waters off eastern South Africa, researchers have found a new species: a pygmy seahorse about the size of a grain of rice. The finding shocked them because all seven species ...

Zoo Miami’s beloved pygmy hippopotamus, Aubergine, got some extra care this week after showing signs of lethargy and a drop in appetite. Born at the zoo in August 2018, Aubergine has faced big ...