WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.

Archaeologists have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland ...

Earthen channels directed fish into ponds that formed seasonally, providing a dietary bounty for Maya civilizations starting around 4,000 years ago.

Researchers doing reconnaissance in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary CTWS where they discovered evidence of a large-scale ...

A retired research chimpanzee eats in October 2019 at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in southern N.M. More than 200 previously were moved to the federally supported sanctuary, but the NIH said ...

A heavily pregnant spaniel found tied to a tree and left for dead “in the ... Mum Faith with her pups at the Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary Eight of her nine pups survived and they and mum are ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The state Christmas tree has been harvested and delivered to Michigan’s Capitol in Lansing. The state Christmas tree is a 60-foot spruce donated by Rich and Dorcas ...

But Cassius had been in declining health since October 15, the sanctuary said on Facebook. “He was very old and believed to be living beyond the years of a wild Croc,” it said. “Cassius will ...

The world's largest crocodile in captivity, Cassius, died at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia. The Marineland Melanesia Crocodile Habitat & Gift Shop posted on Facebook about the loss of Cassius.

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree comes with a strong New England accent, and locals could not be more excited. The Norway spruce that will travel to New York City hails from West ...