This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Black History Month, WCS and Nature are sharing five stories of nature and conservation. Growing up, my parents always told me and my siblings, “Anything that the mind can conceive, you can ...

Ancient horses roamed the North American continent for millions of years. And many, many years later, horses played an integral role in building the foundation of the United States. However, there was a period in time when horses vanished from the continent, and the reason ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Black History Month, WCS and Nature are sharing five stories of nature and conservation. In 2017, I became one of the first Black Wild Animal Keepers at the New York Aquarium. I ...

After each NATURE premiere, we gather online videos we love into a playlist and round up resources for parents and teachers. From our newest film to incredible footage from around the web, here were our favorites. And don’t forget, you can always subscribe to our ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Black History Month, WCS and Nature are sharing five stories of nature and conservation. Most people in the conservation world can recall a childhood memory or experience that cemented their love for ...

As the world’s elite athletes descend on Beijing for this winter’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, many of them are doing so literally. Mountain training centers from the Rockies to the Alps to the Pyrenees offer competitors far more than snowy slopes. Even summer Olympians train ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Black History Month, WCS and Nature are sharing five stories of nature and conservation. Black History Month is a time for me to reflect on my career and think of ways to ...

  Elephant seals: large, aquatic earless seals. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Carnivora Clade: | Pinnipedia Family: | Phocidae Genus: | Mirounga There are two species of elephant seals: northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) and southern and southern elephant ...