Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

Nashville Zoo has a new mama at the zoo. Bosa the pudu welcomed a male baby just in time for Mother's Day. Meet him here.

Invasive species are silently taking over U.S. ecosystems, threatening native plants, animals, and entire habitats. From aggressive predators to fast-spreading plants, these 10 species are among the ...

In Jequitinhonha in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, an animal fight broke out on April 25: a dog and a rooster engaged in a heated duel over the food bowl.

They say that ignorance is bliss, and it is, until that bliss is snatched away by the cold, icy hand of reality. In this case ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few ...

Imagine a brutally tough, very hairy creature with sharp tusks that could scare even a cougar. It’s a social animal that ...

Argentines rejoiced after his election, but the enthusiasm faded as the pope was pulled into Argentina's messy politics — with politicians trying to claim him as a fellow traveler or ...

The Vatican is, of course, surrounded by the Italian capital Rome, while the Pope was born and grew up in Argentina and was once Archbishop of Buenos Aires. The president of Pope Francis's native ...

But no matter how far they roam, many of the animals now face the same issues ... Royal penguins, named for yellow plumes resembling crowns, are native to the Southern Ocean’s Macquarie Island ...

Pope Francis never returned to his native Argentina after he became head of the Roman Catholic Church. But some of the faithful here believe he sent a final message home, in the unlikeliest but ...

He moved around Rome in an ordinary hatchback and popped into stores to buy shoe insoles, change eyeglass lenses and buy recordings of classical music and tango from his native Argentina.