The diversity of water strider species apparently developed as early as the Cretaceous period, much earlier than previously ...

The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of ...

On January 22, 2003, Chinese paleontologists discovered the fossil of a dinosaur species with four wings. The ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, ...

To maximize visits from feathered friends to my feeder, I spoke with Tru Hubbard, an urban wildlife education coordinator for ...

Colorado is beginning the lengthy process of reintroducing wolverines to the state, where the furry animal hasn’t been seen ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

The microbiome of infants is shaped by social relationships from an early age and not only by family sources, finds a recent ...

Photographer Frédéric Noy's shots give an insight into life around the rainforests of Udzungwa Mountains National Park – and ...

At the Nupqu Native Plant Nursery in the Canadian province of British Columbia, sulfur buckwheat seedlings fill Styrofoam ...