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The idea stems from an existing series by author Jerry Pallotta, an award-winning author who has dabbled in everything from alphabet books to nonfiction nature examinations to series on holidays and ...

And yet it began as a quirky idea by three former PayPal employees-- Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen-- who activated their domain on Valentine's Day 2005, hazy about its direction. At his ...

Baby penguins are easily some of the cutest creatures that human beings have ever encountered. If you are in need of some cuteness overload, just go look at a baby penguin. However, if you don’t ...

The New York City Bar wants the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) — which operates the famous zoo — to either voluntarily ...

Rain is next on our weather radar for Indianapolis starting Wednesday morning with possible thunderstorms and freezing rain happening tonight. While some Hoosiers are preparing for an ice storm ...

A winter storm is expected to begin hitting Central Indiana early this afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, with some combination of rain or freezing rain along ...

For nearly two weeks, the sex of the Oregon Zoo's newest baby elephant has remained a mystery as staff let Rose-Tu, the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) — The Oregon Zoo has officially named Rose-Tu’s baby! The zoo announced Thursday morning that the ...

The Oregon Zoo in Portland has welcomed its newest addition, a baby elephant. Thirty-year-old Asian elephant Rose-Tu gave birth on Saturday after 20 months of pregnancy, the zoo said in a news release ...

The last two elephants at the Bronx Zoo should be immediately moved to an animal sanctuary, a group of Big Apple lawyers contended Wednesday as questions about the pair’s care continue to swirl.

Elephants trumpeted, touched trunks and flapped their oversized ears upon reuniting with their herd after a complex, five-day move from an urban Australian zoo to a ...