Meet Alex the Aldabra Giant Tortoise, a resident of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo since 1956. Jorge Ribas gets up close.

More dangerous festivals – this time in Nuanquan, China, where locals hurl molten iron at a wall. And sometimes, on themselves.

Devotees are gathering in a small village in northern India, to worship a buffalo born with three eyes and three mouths.

An extraordinary pair of Siamese crocodiles are born in Thailand.

Two rare clouded leopard cubs were recently born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center.

Predicting the height of a flood in important when lives are at stake. A USGS expert talks about the process.