Two rabid bats were found in Lexington this month, stirring the wave of uneasiness that humans have long felt toward our tiny flying mammal cousins. But the people who study bats say we should be less concerned about what bats might do to us, and more wor

Traditionally, northern Wisconsin has always been considered “bear country.” But over the years some of that region’s black bears would occasionally wander southward to create a sensation around the Coulee Region.

With its chain-link fences and tidy patches of lawn, Gibson Street in Medford isn't the first place Animal Planet is likely to set up its cameras. So, Joyce Pantone Rodrigues, understandably, was surprised when she looked out her kitchen window on a rece

China faces damage “on a potentially huge scale” from introduced species, a threat that is being amplified by preparations for the Beijing Olympics, scientists have warned.

NEW YORK - Ears twitching wildly, Nikki and Lucy hovered near the telephone, aroused by the caller on the other end. He was their "whisperer," and the girls had something to tell me: "Their food tastes like sawdust." Nikki and Lucy are my 10-year-old