Ascending and descending sloping and vertical branches is critical for arboreal locomotion and likely played a major role in early primate evolution. While most studies have focused on ascent, ...

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could ...

Whether strolling through the woods or taking a rest from outdoor labor, autumn is a time when people contemplate the value ...

A new book challenges us to work together as a community to grant sovereignty to forests and the animals who live there.

Already, it is teaching us how little we know. It may finally explain mysteries such as why humans have a chin – and what we ...

DNA from a new Bartonella bacterium has been detected in sand flies in the Brazilian Amazon, similar to the strains that ...

Roughly a decade ago, both Dollar Tree Inc. and archrival Dollar General Corp. were bidding for Family Dollar as the rapidly growing dollar-chain industry opened lots of new stores. When Dollar Tree ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey Island reveals that birds were responsible for carrying most of the plants that colonized ...