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Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, an ancient forest stands as a final sanctuary against the encroachment of human activity. It is ...

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

Once, magnificent creatures like the Dodo and Passenger Pigeon roamed Earth. Their trusting nature and sheer numbers, however, couldn't protect them from human hunting and habitat destruction. From ...

Long before modern cities and borders, early humans shared the planet with enormous and often dangerous animals. Woolly ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

The charismatic, robust, and impressive North American mountain sheep is losing its habitat to industrial mining, the changing climate, and human activity. And unless action is taken to protect this ...

Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

For instance, a Neanderthal variant of a gene called H19 may have heightened their risk of hypertension, thus exacerbating ...

There's new research that has some paleontologists "jumping for joy"! Here's why giant extinct kangaroos may have been able ...

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building ...