Central Park is hosting a free overnight campout, but campers must win a lottery for the rare Manhattan sleepover.

Kairavi is halfway through her 22-month pregnancy, with the next Asian elephant calf at the OKC Zoo expected in June 2027.

Dallas Zoo has welcomed a healthy male African elephant calf after Mlilo’s nearly 21-month pregnancy. The new arrival is Mlilo’s third calf.

Triangle Land Conservancy has protected another 602 acres of Johnston County wilderness along the Neuse River, adding wetlands, shoreline and trail potential to a fast-growing conservation corridor.

Oklahoma City’s annual deer conference is bringing more than 20 experts and about 35 sessions to hunters of every experience level.

Birch Aquarium is giving San Diego’s most recognizable salamander a fall exhibit built around Mexican culture, regenerative science and conservation.

A renovated Hamlin Park dog area was meant to improve access and drainage. Instead, owners say loose gravel is leaving dogs with torn, bleeding paws.

A black bear cooled off in a La Crescenta backyard spa before wandering away, marking the latest in a run of foothill sightings.

Riggs-LaSalle’s athletic field is getting new synthetic turf, a baseball diamond and a walking path as part of a larger D.C. parks upgrade.

Thousands of purple martins are turning a Katy shopping center into Houston’s unlikely summer hot spot. The dusk spectacle is expected to continue through August.

Hundreds of hikers marked Colorado’s 150th birthday by climbing its iconic fourteeners, with about 500 starting Mount Bierstadt alone.

A possible great white was hooked and released off Florida’s Treasure Coast as a dead hammerhead turned up near Jupiter.

Houston Botanic Garden is turning Saturday night into a close-up look at moths, bats and other nocturnal pollinators.