Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

Scientists are making new discoveries every day, but many of them fall under the radar. Some of these findings are ...

Before life as we know it began, early humans walked the Earth at the same time as woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. Through several prehistoric eras they lived, hunted and evolved, leaving ...

Despite 2026 being America’s 250th birthday, I think when Americans take a trip abroad, we’re often a little overwhelmed by ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...