The Indy 500 is this weekend and race fans will be packing the stands, but if you’d prefer a Memorial Day weekend outdoors somewhere else in Indiana, here’s what’s happening at local and state parks.

Tortoises are widely seen as slow, harmless herbivores, but rare observations reveal a far more disturbing side to their behavior. In certain environments, they have been documented deliberately ...

New York City parrot shop owner Queron Romain gets over a dozen requests per month to re-home birds whose elderly owners have become sick. Other times, the birds outlive their owners altogether.

Researchers have captured the moment when a livelong vegetarian broke rank to eat meat -- and what made it all the more "horrifying" was that it was a tortoise. Scientists captured the moment on video ...

In a shocking twist to its slow-and-steady image, a tortoise is caught hunting and eating a bird. This rare behavior challenges everything we thought we knew about these seemingly gentle reptiles.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The south coast of South Africa's Western Cape province is a rich source of fossil tracks and traces – clues suggesting what this environment may have been like many ...

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The south coast of South Africa's Western Cape province is a rich source of fossil tracks and traces - clues suggesting what this environment may have been like many thousands of years ago. the only ...