Zoos and private collections teach, inspire, and connect people to animals they may never encounter in the wild. And, in some ...

If you’ve ever been curious about what dingoes truly are and where they come from, you’ve landed on the right page. These wild dogs have been around Australia for thousands of years, but their story ...

Haleakalā National Park is home to many birds and animals found only in the Hawaiian Islands, including the endangered Maui parrotbill.

A rogue coyote has attacked two people in Bergen County, prompting officials to take serious action and issue safety warnings ...

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara has uncovered a lost human lineage that remained untouched for 50,000 years.

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Tony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s ...

Being the only Neanderthal raised in a 21st-century world of humans would likely be lonely and isolating, possibly like the ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Scientists at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and the University of Udine have detected the uptake of nanoplastics in farm animal cell cultures. The results provide ...

Rare animal behaviors were captured in a new BBC wildlife documentary series. The series, titled “Kingdom” and narrated by biologist Sir David Attenborough, follows leopards, hyenas, ...