Hong Kong scientists fight to save fragrant incense trees Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree stump that is one ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

Earth system models are essential tools for studying complex planetary processes, including interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere.

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

The USDA said four Nevada dairy herds were infected with an H5N1 bird flu strain that has circulated in wild birds, making ...

The restaurant named best patio in the Charlotte area is closing after five years — however, its owners are going to open a ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

Even when I close my eyes tight and wrinkle my forehead in deep concentration on my early childhood growing up in Memphis and ...

The truffles — a type of fungi found across the globe and revered as rare culinary delicacies — have since been studied ...