Many animals have the need for speed – it is a matter of survival whether predator or prey. When it comes to speed, certain ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

One ancient Greek writer said that he wished to become a “high-flying eagle and soar beyond the barren waters over the swell ...

Some animals that migrate across the globe-such as birds, salmon, lobsters and sea turtles-are known to navigate using the ...

Valentine's Day gifts for Chicago area zoo animals ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Atascadero’s Charles Paddock Zoo has welcomed three cute new residents — a trio of young Mexican spider monkeys who have ...

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 ...

Scientists discovered a moth that appears 3D despite having flat wings. Tiny structures on its wings reflect light that ...

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

We suggest that as the Earth changed physically and chemically over time, its surface conditions allowed for a greater diversity of habitats for life. And these changes operate on geologic timescales ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...