Why should we read children's nonfiction animal books? Teaching kids about animals is akin to teaching colors and numbers.

All animals have their special characteristics and features. Some are known for, or even named after, a certain feature. That ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

Throughout history, the narwhal’s tusk has inspired wonder, myth, and scientific speculation. During medieval times, these tusks were traded as “unicorn horns” and were believed ... fish stunning over ...

Throughout history, the narwhal’s tusk has inspired wonder, myth, and scientific speculation. During medieval times, these tusks were traded as “unicorn horns” and were believed ... fish stunning over ...

tusk that sticks out from the center of their heads like a giant horn. Thing is, sometimes narwhals sprout two of them. A narwhal with two tusks is far from the norm, but one such specimen is ...

Mac's Mission in Missouri is used to taking in different dogs. Rochelle Steffen founded Mac's Mission nearly eight years ago and, since then, the focus of the nonprofit rescue has been on dogs ...

It was the discovery of the narwhal, the small horned whale of northern Canada, which led to a great deal of enterprise because the skeletal bones could be produced. The horns of the narwhal were ...

The second recording may have shown two species that don’t regularly interact investigating one another, as little evidence implies that narwhals normally eat char, and they do most of the year ...

The mysterious horns, he declared, belong to narwhals. Thanks to the male’s ... Image: O’Corry-Crowe, FAU/Watt, DFO This toothed whale has only two teeth, one on each side of its mouth.