Anyone walking along the North or Baltic Sea might spot a seal with a bit of luck–but not sea lions. Yet, the two are often confused, leading many to wonder: What exactly is the difference between a ...

It’s easy to confuse two animals. Believe me, I do it much too often. I’m talking leopard vs. cheetah or emu vs. ostrich. But it doesn’t have to be as difficult to differentiate between two similar ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. If you were asked to tell the difference between these similar sea mammals, could you? Caretakers at Smithsonian's National Zoo show us how.

For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks. But far less ...