Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

I paid a lot of attention to those words because I already had a big — make that a giant interest in growing these fascinating plants that seemed to defy the worst of abuse and still kept on growing, ...

All but one species of the Cactus plant family are native to the Western Hemisphere ... a native plant to that part of the world. One genus, Pereskia, native to tropical settings of South America ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

The Sicklefin Redhorse has a long history in the waters of southern Appalachia. But the fish wasn’t rediscovered and ...

Humans may have taken over the planet with our amazing intellect, but that doesn't mean the animal kingdom is filled with ...

Fascinating caves, an opera house and hot springs galore. The historic communities of Shoshone and Tecopa have much more to ...

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

A new species of dinosaur with strange claws has been unearthed in Mongolia by paleontologists. This new genus and species is ...

In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a ...

Vasuki indicus, a prehistoric snake fossil discovered in Gujarat, India, measures an astounding 49 feet in length, surpassing even the Titanoboa. This ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.