Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

These events put the X-Men on the map, and defined what Marvel's superpowered mutant team would look like for decades to come ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

Experts warn there's a growing chance of El Niño conditions later this year, raising the spectre of another year of ...

Next week sees 20 new games and bundles heading to the PlayStation platform.

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Is New Jersey’s long-debated guidance on how to deal with students’ gender identities headed for the scrap heap?

A former funeral home director is facing over 60 theft charges after he allegedly stole money from grieving families who paid to plan funerals for their loved ones. A community open house planned to ...

An interim update to the landmark State of the World’s Migratory Species of 2024 warns that 49% of migratory species populations protected under a global treaty are declining, up 5% in just two years, ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

This winter's extreme flooding has destroyed nests, drowned small mammals and threatens a sharp drop in butterflies and other ...