New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

Picturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...

Woodrats survive on toxic creosote plants by copying detox genes, producing more enzymes to break down plant toxins and avoid ...

These behaviours require no learning or external teaching; they are pre-programmed patterns of action that an animal performs ...

Archaeologists Baffled after Discovering Gigantic Skull of a 200-million-year-Old Dinosaur, Say it is a Never-Before-Seen ...

New compelling research shows when cats play, these fun-seeking felines match one another’s faces to have fun, get along, and ...

What long has been considered merely a chemical reaction perhaps is best compared to another all-too-familiar scourge — a virus.

While myths about wildlife abound, most are patently false. Bats are not blind; big bears can’t climb trees and birds will not abandon a fledgling touched by a human, among other falsehoods.

Fire resets the ecological clock,” Fish and Game’s Salmon Region Wildlife Biologist Sean Schroff said. “Idaho is a diverse ...