The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in northwestern Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

If the world feels out of control, dystopian, or even apocalyptic, it's possible to change course. The fate of the human ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

On World Zoonoses Day, the message is clear: the health of humans, animals, and the planet is woven together. By respecting ...

A new species of gecko, believed to be present only around Coonoor, has been discovered in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu.

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...