Philippine scientists and an Australian expert have just confirmed a new species of pitcher plant found only on Palawan ...

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

“Pyrethrin is the most important insecticide in the world,” says Joel Maina Kibett, chief agriculture officer of Nakuru ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

In and around the Howardian Hills, chefs are crafting dishes that sing of this county’s rich larder, with ingredients like ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Some plants produce heat, which has long puzzled botanists. But a new study suggests that infrared radiation is an ancient ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

A first-ever analysis of the whole Greenland shark genome gives researchers a couple of clues to their longevity. When this Greenland shark was born, Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa. The species is the ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is helping scientists understand a little bit more about the mysterious ...

The gorilla moves with quiet majesty through Uganda’s highland forests, while across the country, communities are stepping up ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...