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 ...

Did you know that evidence of early human presence in the Philippines dates back an astounding 700,000 years? In 2018, researchers uncovered stone tools and butchered animal remains on the island of ...

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, ...

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