CHICAGO (WLS) -- O'Hare International Airport looks a bit like a petting zoo these days since animals, including goats, sheep and llamas, have taken over some of the landscaping duties. The green ...

Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping the Earth’s surface as they burrow, feed and build shelters that move soil and ...

A family of lions takes a midday nap in the middle of a road in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. On a nearby golf course, a lioness sips water from a pond while spotted hyenas and African wild ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth’s surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and ...

A landscape that brings not only diversity in plant life but an abundance of animal life presents nature right to your doorstep. Think of opening your window and hearing frogs croaking and birds ...

Asher Elbein is a freelance journalist and fiction writer based in Austin. This story originally featured on the Texas Observer. When the rain began, the antelope and deer of the Y.O. Ranch ...