Peanut, the social media star squirrel at the center of a national furor after it was seized from its owner in upstate New ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island’s largest environmental group is pushing for the inclusion of a rare local frog on the ...

Animal biotechnology is a branch of biotechnology in which molecular biology techniques are used to genetically engineer (i.e. modify the genome of) animals in order to improve their suitability ...

If granted Endangered Species Act status, terrapins will join a number of other animals who have benefited from such protections.

Copperheads are found only in a small area just west of Tallahassee and in a few counties in the western Panhandle, according to the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ...

Brisbane legspinner Grace Parsons captured 3-22 in just her second WBBL match to inspire a 28-run win over Melbourne ...

They include a coral snake found last week near a home in Port Salerno and a diamondback rattlesnake in Palm City.

Welcome to The Diamondback Sports Digest. Every week, we send you a rundown of the latest Maryland athletics news. A week after Maryland football appeared to have saved its season, it turned in ...

(Giuseppe LoPiccolo/The Diamondback) The College Park City Council voted Tuesday to add another full-time animal control officer position for the city amid a rise in animal-related service calls ...

“[Diamondback Terrapins] have been on the wrong ... to actually scavenging animals.” On top of eating, it’s also important for the turtles to be eaten, said Swanson. It’s not uncommon ...

“To our knowledge, it is the first time that animal life has been discovered in the ocean crust,” Sabine Gollner, a marine biologist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea ...