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The Sumatran rhino is the world’s smallest and hairiest rhinoceros species—and one of the rarest mammals on Earth. Credit: ...

The fossils belonged to Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the ...

Electrons inside a diamond have given a floating, centimeter-sized device a quantum nudge, opening a new path toward testing ...

An antibiotic resistance gene helps a dangerous gut bacterium build tougher spores that can survive hospital disinfectants.

A star survived the explosion that left behind Pa 30, a dandelion-shaped cloud of debris. The sharpest images yet show that ...

Inflammation persists after proteins detach from immune receptors, revealing a potential target for autoimmune treatments.

Mars Express can capture large stretches of the Martian surface at high resolution. Alongside ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ...

A sugar in red meat that the human body recognizes as foreign may help explain the food’s link to type 2 diabetes.

Today, Aldabra and the Galapagos are the two remaining strongholds of native wild giant tortoises, with far fewer animals in ...

The first half of the story is well established. Wolves were eradicated from Yellowstone in the 1920s. With the wolves gone, ...

Fluctuating blood pressure may carry clinical information beyond a single reading. Credit: Shutterstock People with type 2 diabetes and highly variable systolic blood pressure had nearly triple the ...