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In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...
The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a ...
A team of international scientists reveals the most critical locations in our global oceans for better marine conservation ...
In the last 50 years, two-thirds of all wild animal populations have been lost. The main cause is habitat loss, as native forest is felled to grow grass for cattle or corn and soya for livestock.
So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...
In the last 50 years, two-thirds of all wild animal populations have been lost. The main cause is habitat loss, as native forest is felled to grow grass for cattle or corn and soya for livestock.
From antiquity to modern times, the city has been rife with creatures that creep, slither, scurry and nest among its pillars ...
Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...
An extinct Australian animal can once again be seen bounding across a paddock after rare 16mm film was digitised by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) this week. Taken almost 90 years ago, the ...
In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite ...
But in 2014, they found a permanent home in Brainerd. "We started with 45 to 50 species here at the zoo, and now we've got well over 130, 140 different species of animals and birds here," said Vogel.
Memory is a marker of intelligence. Of all animals, humans possess the most accurate and sophisticated memory. But elephants can recognize as many as 30 traveling companions at a time.