Our 10 Favorite Stories and Photos from the Year ...

Quick Take The Extinct Animal Graveyard at the Bronx Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo features 11 globally extinct species represented by headstones and last-seen dates. It sits on a shaded lawn near the Mouse ...

Three ducks at the Queens Zoo have died of bird flu and 12 other birds that died at the Bronx Zoo may have come into contact with the virus, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. The WCS ...

The New York City holiday institution has only gotten bigger and brighter since its debut on Christmas Eve 1931 ...

The population of American eels has declined. They need protection, conservationists say, despite their resilience. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out about eels that ...

We look back over the year’s wildlife photographs, and hand out some much-deserved gongs to brilliant and beautiful creatures around the world ...

A massive fire tore through a row of stores and an apartment building in the Bronx overnight, bubbling a virtual inferno into the dark sky but causing no serious injuries. The fire broke out at a ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies carried out a raid in the Bronx early Tuesday morning, detaining at least one immigrant wanted on charges including kidnapping, ...

Archeologists hunting for relics from the Revolutionary War discovered human remains in a Bronx park Friday, cops said. A skeletal human leg was discovered in a wooded stretch of Van Cortland Park ...

Human skeletal remains were discovered at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx Friday morning, police and law enforcement sources said. A group of artifact hunters made the chilling discovery in a wooded ...

MINOT, ND (KXNET) — On Saturday, the Roosevelt Park Zoo teamed up with the Greater Minot Zoological Society to host their annual Christmas at the Zoo event. The holiday celebration featured photo ...