The earlier ancestors of today’s domestic cats spread from southwest Asia and into Europe as early as 4400 B.C. The cats likely started hanging around farming communities in the Fertile Crescent ...

1.5-million-year-old bone may be earliest evidence of cannibalism by human ancestors. HISTORY & CULTURE. He returned to the ‘cave of bones’ to solve the mysteries of human origins.

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...