A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

Highly valued in diverse cultures, the horse gallops to pole position in the Chinese zodiac. Famous horse babies include ...

Australia’s unique wildlife is facing an escalating extinction crisis, driven primarily by climate change and compounded by ...

The tragedy of Romeo began long before the frog found fame as the last of his kind. Starting in the 1970s, scientists started noticing something troubling in the amphibian world: the decline and, in ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests. The tree was functionally extinct by the 1950s because ...

Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s political apparatus, once a seemingly monolithic force in politics, is unraveling under the combined weight of international criminal scrutiny, domestic corruption ...

From finding out where swallows go in winter to discovering microbes here are 10 of the greatest biological discoveries ever ...

Recapping what happened on Day 5 of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, with Jordan Stolz winning his first speedskating gold medal and the U.S. finishing 1-2 in women's moguls.

If we want Sasak to live, the only way is to keep practicing it, even when it competes with more dominant languages.

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Five years ago, the economist Partha Dasgupta warned that business was self-cannibalising: consuming the natural systems it depends on as if they were infinite, while investing almost nothing in their ...