We've rounded up the deadliest beasts of all time, from bears and crocodiles to deer and cows (yes, you did read that correctly), and ranked them.

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I was parked up in a hot, dusty truck with wildlife film-maker Russell MacLaughlin, looking back and forth between a huge ...

According to NatureServe, an organization that keeps tabs on North American flora and fauna, more than 7,000 of those species ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

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Across more than 20 trails and sprawling wildlife is a wildlife refuge nestled within the Denver metro area. And it is not immune to the federal government shutdown, now in its 23rd day. "I was ...