A newly discovered Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast has revealed the first fossilized footprints of these ancient humans in the region. A new international study published in Scientific ...

Pigs, rats, cats, and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

Native to the arctic waters of the northern hemisphere, the Bowhead whale can live for centuries, and now scientists think ...

Large mammals in Yellowstone adapt to summer heat by changing behavior—shaped more by landscape than biology, a new study ...

Shenzhou-21 mission docks at Tiangong after a 3.5 hour chase, carrying three astronauts and four lab mice to begin six months of experiments and spacewalks.

China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in ...

An international research team has uncovered 270-million-year-old fossil tracks belonging to a dog-like predator considered one of the earliest mammal ancestors on the island of Mallorca. Led by ...

We often assume that bigger is better, but nature constantly proves this wrong. The world’s smallest mammals are miniature marvels, many weighing less than a paperclip and capable of fitting right in ...

The United States is tightening the rules on seafood imports to protect marine mammals from “bycatch” caused by destructive fishing methods. NOAA Fisheries is the U.S. agency that manages ocean ...

Recently, researchers announced they detected a gas signature in an exoplanet’s atmosphere that matches what we’d expect from biological activity — not simple chemical processes. The finding has sent ...