Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.

Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first human case of bird flu in Oregon, on Friday.

Almost by chance, researchers in Norway have found that adult comb jellies reverse their development and become larva again when stressed by starvation. It helps them survive because larva eat less th ...

Over 41,000 years ago, some of the first humans to arrive in Tasmania used fire to shape and manage the landscape—2,000 years ...

Microscopic analysis by Montana scientists has revealed the first detailed structure of the pathogen that causes chronic ...

Over 41,000 years ago, Tasmania's first human inhabitants, the Aboriginal Tasmanians, utilized fire to manage and modify ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...

While primates could be natural successors, their similarities to humans might make them extinct, leading to the dominance of ...

With migratory waterfowl back for the cold seasons, Oregon is the first state to report new spike in avian flu detections ...