A man has been arrested after he was caught climbing into an enclosure of Moo Deng, the adorable pygmy hippo who became a ...

Traditional music and dance remain central to the cultural life of many indigenous forest communities in the Congo Basin. Gatherings often feature rhythmic singing, percussion, and coordinated ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists. The ...

Two marsupial species, the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, have been rediscovered in West Papua after being considered extinct for 6,000 years. This scientific triumph is viewed ...

Field researchers call them “Lazarus taxa,” species once presumed extinct that suddenly appear to have risen from the dead. And scientists have found one more—a marsupial thought to have disappeared ...

A tiny possum with an extremely long finger and a new kind of gliding marsupial have been identified in West Papua. The two species were only previously known in Western science from the fossil record ...

Move over, Moo Deng — America has a new baby pygmy hippo to obsess over. Meet Jellybean, the newest breakout star at Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, Arizona, about 20 miles outside of Phoenix ...

see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google The World Wildlife Zoo's new baby pygmy hippo was named Jellybean, so it won't be this year's Cadbury bunny. Photo courtesy of the World Wildlife ...

Arizona’s Wildlife World Zoo has revealed the name of its new baby pygmy hippo after receiving thousands of votes from visitors and fans. The animal, born Jan. 22, has been named Jellybean after the ...

A Paiute man had a vision: A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end. HEARD ...