Looking for berries and seeds to eat, a group of California quail struts down a dirt road. The floppy black feathers that stick out of their heads quiver as they go. These birds chirp to each other ...

The yellow-footed rock wallaby is a marsupial—a pouched mammal—belonging to the same family as the kangaroo. This rock wallaby lives in mountain habitats in isolated portions of Australia. The ...

A two-inch-long tube-lipped nectar bat hovers by a narrow, bell-shaped flower in its forest habitat. This hungry animal is after nectar at the bottom of the blossom. To get to the goody, the bat pokes ...

For the lion cubs in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, playtime is serious business. Young cubs play hide-and-seek with Mom while they avoid predators roaming the savanna, before playing follow-the ...

The head louse makes itself at home on the human scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes, which is where you’ll find this annoying parasite. An estimated six million or more children are infested each year in ...