Officials say mandatory reporting would help monitor chronic wasting disease and inform county-level wildlife management ...

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) once again achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), which is the highest national ...

While no official statewide census for bobcat populations in Mississippi exists, wildlife biologists estimate that tens of thousands of bobcats live across Mississippi’s counties. Studies suggest that ...

While they are as American as apple pie and inseparably intertwined with the Thanksgiving holiday, the famous fowls once ...

Ahead of Thanksgiving, dozens of volunteers flocked to Jones Park for a cleanup effort aimed at keeping our beaches clean.

Many acres of wetlands across the vast Mississippi River basin — and elsewhere throughout the country — would lose federal ...

Authorities have captured the last monkey that escaped after a highway crash in Mississippi. The state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said Thursday that a resident near the crash ...

Monkeys are on the lam in Mississippi after escaping from an overturned truck and officials are asking people to report any ...

Jessica Bond Ferguson said her son told her he saw a monkey running in the family’s yard in Heidelberg, Mississippi.

The shocking escape of 21 lab monkeys in Mississippi triggered chaos and fears of rabies along with scary buzz that the ...