A handsome fictional mathematician once said that life, uh, finds a way – and he’s not wrong. Earth is teeming with organisms ...

The largest and most famous settlement associated with the IVC was the great city of Harappa, which flourished from around ...

C ommunities in the Pacific Northwest are no strangers to volcanoes, with many of the region’s towns and cities overshadowed ...

Known as HKU5-CoV-2, the virus also appears capable of hooking onto other versions of ACE2 in multiple different mammals, ...

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit ...

A new study suggests that windborne transmission could be partially to blame for the spread of bird flu between farms.

U ntil recently, the world’s population growth showed no signs of slowing, yet over the last few years it has quite spectacularly ground to a halt. In fact, populations are now thought to have peaked ...

B eing a Viking wasn’t all raiding and marauding. According to new research, a large part of the ancient Norse lifestyle also involved being struck down by oral and maxillofacial diseases, many of ...

“My conceptual model can explain the mystery of the missing calves: Blue whales produce calves, or give birth, shortly after departing their summer feeding grounds, and wean their calves seven months ...

The findings hint that an animalistic impulse to help others in distress may be more common than previously thought. There is ...

It’s hoped that through competitions like Bug of the Year, greater awareness will be brought to velvet worms and other bugs ...

The island was formed by the eruption of Home Reef – a submarine volcano found in the Central Tonga Islands between Lateiki ...