Why Mississippi’s white-tailed deer symbolizes wildlife recovery, hunting tradition, and rural life across the state.
Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
Many mammal populations in European and North American zoos are aging—a trend that jeopardizes the long-term viability of so-called reserve populations and, with it, a core mission of modern zoos in ...
The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far ...
A rhinoceros skeleton buried beneath Canada's High Arctic for 23 million years has emerged as the northernmost member of its family ever documented, fundamentally reshaping understanding of ancient ...
Many mammal populations in European and North American zoos are aging – a trend that jeopardizes the long-term viability of so-called reserve ...
Koalas, a much-loved icon, are both endangered and abundant in Australia. We look at the big picture across an even bigger ...
A n isolated Alaskan population of beluga whales is small enough that inbreeding could be a major threat. Yet they remain ...
Learn how the harbor seal became Rhode Island’s state animal and what this whiskered swimmer says about the Ocean State.