Two confirmed cases of the rare virus prompted the WHO and other health officials to activate their outbreak responses.

What is Nipah virus? Symptoms to watch out for as India races to contain deadly outbreak - Nipah is a deadly virus with no vaccine or cure and considered a high-risk pathogen by the World Health Organ ...

The Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha is partnering with Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom to protect the endangered Puerto Rican ...

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has warned the Nipah virus is “very rare, but very deadly”, as he revealed Australia is not currently looking to change entry protocols at the border.

After two decades building one of the world’s most important private collections of Rembrandt and Dutch Golden Age works, the ...

There’s enough gloomy wildlife news out there, so here’s a refreshing shift: some animals have pulled off impressive ...

A recently published study in Conservation Biology revealed that queen conch require more space to protect their aggregations ...

On New Years, the Nashville Zoo welcomed its first-ever baby aardvark, who has been named Happy. See why this birth is such a huge milestone.

When you think of kangaroos, you usually imagine the six-foot-tall kind, hopping across wide open spaces throughout Australia ...

It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

Grays endure an epic roundtrip journey of 10,000 miles or more, and California holds a prime seat through May. Along with ...

A goblin shark, one of the ocean’s rarest and strangest predators, was spotted near the Canary Islands for the first time.