A sperm whale that beached itself on a popular South Carolina resort island was euthanized late Sunday after veterinarians ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales -- a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists ...

During high school, Caldwell spent his summers in Eastern Montana, “digging up dinosaurs” and volunteering for the Carter ...

Being raised in an urban area, I particularly appreciate the beauty of simple nature. I consider myself blessed because I can ...

The intensification of existing farmland can sometimes be more harmful to local biodiversity than expanding the area covered ...

Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or ...

Research at the University of Connecticut is endangered as federal funding freezes threaten the education of the next generation of researchers, a computational biology professor at UConn said.

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The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions ...

The director of the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of California Santa Barbara writes that, with coral reefs at ...

The world's rainbow reefs have gone ghostly white in seas around the globe due to record heat in the oceans, the ...

As Brown’s research greenhouse manager, Vasques tends the Plant Environmental Center run by the University’s Department of ...