Our early human ancestors telling fireside stories may have propelled the development of speech by facilitating discussion of ...

Elephants are ecosystem engineers. They trample trees, loosen soil with their tusks, and can even create trails and watering ...

The researchers were most interested in comparing how well the two groups performed a move they referred to as a “slam start” ...

Far from being a brief stopover, the team says the site was a base camp, inhabited by prehistoric humans on and off for over ...

In fact, their poop piles are so dense that they show up on satellite images. And the guano stains aren’t just in the spots ...

Dwarf reedsnakes of the genus Pseudorabdion, found in Southeast Asia, have a rather clever way of fleeing from trouble: They turn cartwheels until they’re safe from danger. See for yourself: Now, ...

Planet Earth offers up stunning scenes every day, and nothing captures these moments better than the winners of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards. A total of 11,929 photographs were submitted ...

England may have a reputation for bleak weather, but the Isle of Wight is closer to dreamy than dreary. The small, diamond-shaped island off the southern coast has sun-drenched beaches and ...

Around 5,250 BCE a series of volcanic activity rocked Japan’s southernmost island, Kyushu. Known as the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, the blast was enormous, notching a seven on the Volcanic Explosivity ...

Conflicting information about the death of a lab worker at a Russian plague research institute has fueled fears about the possibility of pneumonic plague spreading. Nearly 200 people are in quarantine ...