A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

In the quest to understand why agriculture started in a particular place and time, understanding the climate is crucial.

What’s impressive, though, is that they still managed to be surprised.

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

The success of a transplant from a patient with only one copy of the protective gene might be a one-off, but may also allow ...

This top-down effect is technically known as a trophic cascade – a “domino effect throughout the ecological community,” as Pacific Wild puts it. As wolves hunt animals in the rung of the food chain ...

Part of this statistical analysis is bound by the kinematics of the system; basically, what kind of event leads to the ...

Most of the time, a thresher shark's tail is gently swishing side to side to move through the water, but it's capable of a ...

T he Malaysian earthtiger tarantula was first described in 1891 by respected Swedish arachnologist Tamerlan Thorell. However, ...

The problem was with software that calculates the elevation of a plane. Solar particles from the Sun can mess with the ...

Around 50,000 years ago, all modern humans around the world underwent some massive cultural shift at the exact same time, and ...

As a Shetland pony, Pumuckel was always going to be on the smaller size compared to some horses, but his owner, Carola ...