Two shark sightings at Falmouth’s town beach prompted short closures. Neither shark species is known to be aggressive toward ...

The view from the kitchen window of my second-floor apartment isn’t all that grand. Just a look at part of a parking area and an alley on one side and the back corner of the building beside my ...

Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s assault on the Caribbean island of Dominica in 2017, researchers made a heartbreaking ...

When Abebayehu Aticho first visited the flat terrains and floodplains in the Gambella region for his Ph.D. research in 2014, ...

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

Trained canines are also major allies in the fight against smugglers and poachers because of their tracking abilities.

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the Australopithecines that used to roam the African continent. This is the ...

Norway is home to 212 different bee species. Or perhaps rather: the country used to have 212 species. Insect numbers are ...

Our far-distant ancestors and those of the shark shared the same waters. In 1975, "JAWS" created a reunion of imagination, borne of love and fear.