Some have claimed she’s indulging a forbidden romance. More likely, loneliness compels her to seek company at Rio de Janeiro’s zoo. Either way, a blue-and-yellow macaw...
Among the many legends of strange, dangerous creatures that haunt the Amazon, the story of the Candiru fish stands out. The Candiru fish Vandellia cirrhosa is...
A well-preserved ancient megalithic burial has been discovered in North Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Sunday. While hiking in the village of Akroum in...
New research by scientists at the University of Bristol explains how a ‘stop-start’ pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles have changed...
Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop...
Improvements in access to modern contraception and the education of girls and women are generating widespread, sustained declines in fertility, and world population will likely peak...
Dead dolphins are washing up on France’s Atlantic coast in such high numbers that local populations of the mammals are at risk, marine biologists say. The...
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick — research that...
Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests...
Researchers reported in a paper published Friday their discovery of the first coprolites, or fossil feces, found in an asphaltic environment. Hundreds of fossilized rodent pellets...
A rich source of carbon and other nutrients has been discovered in groundwater atop Arctic permafrost, scientists say in a paper published Friday. The paper, published in...