This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

Xishui leaf-litter toads are considered “moderate”-sized, reaching about 1.5 inches in length, the study said. They have textured bodies with bumps and raised ridges. Their limbs are “slender” with ...

Sonoma Botanical Garden is self-pollinating a rare magnolia from China in hopes of cultivating more specimens to preserve the ...

A tree species once thought to be extinct is thriving in Michigan. The dawn redwood was rediscovered in the 1940s. Since then, dozens – perhaps even hundreds – have been planted throughout Michigan.

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree ... which means huge head in Chinese.

CHINA — The story of how humans evolved ... Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis ...