The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is home to some of nature’s most fascinating creatures, and this apex predator in the Great Cats wing is no exception. In today’s ...

To some people it may have been just a small bone; a darkened and fossilized relic laying in a creek bed since the end of the last ice age. But thousands of years ago it was a part of one of the most ...

India today shelters nearly 70 percent of the world’s Bengal tiger population, according to a recent report by the National ...