New research reveals that deep-sea mining could dramatically threaten 30 species of sharks, rays, and ghost sharks whose ...

Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds.

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

New fossil research shows that humans have reshaped animal communities as extensively as the great extinctions of the Ice Age ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

Scientists found that different species of woolly mammoths were interbreeding, creating hybrid babies with traits from both ...

In the past, meditation was the purview of monks and, to a lesser extent, nuns. Now, meditation and mindfulness are ...

Cloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or ...

A few dozen enthusiasts of ancient hunting tools participated in the Northeast Open Atlatl Championship in Addison, Vermont, ...

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help peer-review the paper, echoes that sentiment, adding that the research “opens the ...

When Montana and Idaho held their first regulated wolf hunts in 2009, one of their stated goals was to reduce pressure on ranchers. Rebounding wolf populations were killing livestock. Fewer wolves, ...