Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...

The Khao Kheow Open Zoo was overrun with Moo Deng fans on the first of four days of activities marking the hippo’s birthday.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Thirty years after the Srebrenica massacre, ‘never again’ is an old and empty slogan - COMMENT: As we mark the anniversary of ...

Thousands of excited fans flocked to a Thai zoo on Thursday to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the adorable baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture – but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...