Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

The Red Sea, circled by desert landscapes, is home to marine life accustomed to the water's bathtub-like temperatures—often ...

New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could ...

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that's the natural result of a green ...

When Russia mounted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many outsiders expected the worst. Predictions swirled that the ...

Bird flu hits cats particularly hard. Just last week, an infected cat was euthanized in California after eating raw pet food.

Heterostyly, a floral polymorphism where a species produces two or three distinct flower types with reciprocal arrangements ...

Organic beekeeping can support healthy and productive honey bee colonies, and a new study led by researchers in Penn State's ...

More than half of Earth's terrestrial surface is rangeland—vast open areas of native vegetation, suitable for grazing. These ...

One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, ...