Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

Bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which vessels drag weighted nets along the seafloor, has long been condemned by ...

Experts spent months tracking 6.5-foot Aesculapian snakes around the country, trying to discover why non-native species have ...

Our new study in north Wales focused on one such migrant. Aesculapian snakes (Zamenis longissimus) are nonvenomous reptiles ...

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines ...

Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New ...

A recent discovery in a cave in Krabi has unearthed numerous hyena fossils, estimated to be over 200,000 years old, suggesting that Krabi was once a savannah.

The “coronavirus pandemic” has largely been resolved thanks to the rapid development and deployment of vaccines. The next big ...

Wildlife are quite resilient when dealing with these conflagrations, especially avian life that can simply fly away during ...