It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

Few know that avocados nearly disappeared from the Earth long ago. Their survival is tied to a turn in natural history and an ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

From bone-wearing caterpillars to revived ancient wolves, 2025 delivered discoveries that unsettled science and stretched ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...