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 ...

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 ...

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

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.

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

British Columbia’s chief veterinarian has told clinics that treat wild birds that they must establish protocols to prevent ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...