As the climate warms, scientists expect animals and plants to move to cooler areas—uphill, toward the poles, or into deeper waters. But in a surprising twist, scientists have found that over a third ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

A team of international scientists reveals the most critical locations in our global oceans for better marine conservation ...

In a flurry of wings, six mother bats drop from their roost and take to the half-lit sky. “Wow!” says Heather Thomson.

Ticks are most active in summer, the same time people also flock to the woods and prairies where the creatures live.

“At that point, all it would take is one storm to knock them out.” Though losses at the wintering grounds were clear in the 1980s and 1990s, the numbers have since stabilized, Davis asserts.

From antiquity to modern times, the city has been rife with creatures that creep, slither, scurry and nest among its pillars ...

Scripps Oceanography postdoctoral scholar Brendan Talwar and teammate Chris Malinowski traveled the world in search of ‘All ...

In some of the earliest settlements in North America, specifically in Jamestown (in modern-day Virginia), and the Plymouth colony (in modern day Massachusetts), the original settlers that survived ...

Thirty years after wolves were brought back from near extinction in the U.S. Rocky Mountains, the state of Idaho is back in ...

A major study of U.K. dietary habits has found that the food we eat contains an average of at least 49 different species each ...

As Steven Spielberg’s classic celebrates its 50th anniversary, Olivia Petter examines the impact its villainous 25-foot great ...