Joseph and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 for the murder of their parents in 1989, may have a chance at parole following a recent legal development. The brothers, born in New York in 1968, ...

Buried beneath the sea off the coast of Indonesia, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could rewrite the ...

The larger sloths didn’t do much tree climbing, at risk of falling to their deaths. Instead, they survived by being ...

Evolutionary humorist' Joe Pisani forecasts where our troubled planet is heading. 'We’re not rising, we’re sinking' ...

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

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Elephants’ “role as a keystone species ... Another collaborator, Shane Campbell-Staton, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California Los Angeles, will study blood, searching ...

he was on the outside as one of the protectors and to see that evolution of his social responsibility within the herd is really interesting,” she said. African elephants typically live to be 60 ...

"The cool thing about the mastodon is that we know pretty exactly from the fossil record when it diverged from the elephant and the mammoth," said Dr Michael Hofreiter of the Max Planck Institute for ...