Animals have some amazing adaptations that help them live in even the most hostile environments. Consider camels, for instance. They can thrive in some of the hottest and driest places on Earth. Their ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone ... But the next day they had to start finding food again! They used animal skins to make clothes and shelters. In the warm periods between ...

Their fascinating, morbid jewelry was beautiful and repulsive, but I couldn’t muster anything to say. I simply stood and ...

Work sparked by young archaeologists 20 years ago has led to experts describing as "stunning" the discovery of evidence of human activity from up to 8,500 years ago. Fragments of Roman pottery and ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

From the arid deserts of the Negev to the lush forests of Galilee, Israel is home to a variety of unusual wild animals that thrive in its diverse ecosystems. Located at the crossroads of Europe ...

Alcohol — and animals that love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a study has found. Because ethanol — the kind of alcohol that forms ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — A study in the Cascade Range in Oregon of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive to climate change, ... Bonobos May Be More ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...

November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in ...