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An Eastern Milk Snake is seen near the Scarborough Bluffs recently. Photo by Ann Brokelman. By ANN AND ERIK BROKELMAN This ...

Squirrels. Image via Unsplash While not extensively studied in scientific literature, wildlife rehabilitators and naturalists have documented numerous cases of squirrel adoption in the wild. In one ...

Said to be the world’s only venomous primate, the Bengal Slow Loris is named for the dark circles around its eyes, which ...

If the story is familiar, fair enough. If not, the 2011 Cardinals won the World Series in unlikely fashion about the time that an eastern grey squirrel mysteriously showed up on the field.

More than just a sightseeing trip, our journey to Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary turned out to be an eye-opening experience ...

Welcome to the wild side of cute. If you thought pets were the peak of adorable, get ready to change your mind.From African ...

THE FIRST RAYS of daylight were beginning to reveal the dark outline of the eastern ridge as I pulled my car into the field ...

The increasingly popular gadgets, which take photos of avian visitors, are turning at-home birding into a shared experience.

As the sun sets behind the Catoctin Mountains, casting long shadows across the forest, Gambrill State Park reveals perhaps its most magical quality – the ability to make you forget you’re just a short ...

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from ...