The new assessment totals 135,690 forest elephants, 16 percent more than the figure estimated in 2016, with an additional ...

A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest ...

In recent years, a new danger has emerged in the Darién Gap. This lawless stretch of ungovernable jungle has become a hive of ...

While more confusing than the traditional "fire make hot" methods of cooking, you can get your head around how they work.

Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

According to those who do it, particularly in colder countries, it can promote better sleep. But what does the science say?

A total of 175 generations of painters followed the same set of rules when depicting the cosmos at Pecos River.

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...

T he coldest place on Earth is the East Antarctic Plateau. In this desolate desert, on July 23, 1983, air temperatures at Russia's Vostok Station plunged to around -89.2°C (-128.6°F), significantly ...

Still, there was the odd unofficial reprieve given here and there. In 1963, for example, President John F. Kennedy received a ...

Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...