A new study on polar bear denning behavior will help scientists better understand this crucial time in the bears’ lives.

Former Yosemite National Park employees protested job cuts to the National Park Service by hanging an upside-down flag from El Capitan.

At least six elephants died after a passenger train collided with a herd of wild elephants that was crossing the track in Sri Lanka.

A Big Bend National Park volunteer came across a unique plant last March, and it was a new species. See it here.

Former NPS employees are speaking out on social media about how massive job cuts might impact national parks’ ability to function.

Some grocery store employees in New Hampshire got a shock when they discovered a venomous snake in the bananas.

A flood didn’t stop a bunch of people from visiting this In-N-Out Burger for a hamburger. Sometimes you just have to risk it all.

An opossum in Nebraska learned the hard way that a human’s diet doesn’t always work out after it ate an entire chocolate cake from Costco.

A Pony Express rider was galloping along a Texas highway at top speed when he whacked into a road sign and was flung from his horse. Yikes.

The wildlife-conservation community is celebrating the birth of a rare and endangered Malayan tapir—a cute “fuzzy walking watermelon.”