Indigenous knowledge and Western science have written a new tale about when horses most recently arrived in North America. Spaniards brought horses to Mexico in 1519. Indigenous peoples then took the ...

Samples collected at daring heights provide evidence for an untested theory of tree drought adaptation, while countering ...

Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the ...

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s latest exhibit, “From These Lands,” connects visitors with America’s natural history ...

Analysis of 3,000 incidents in Canada reveals which animal–human activity combos are especially risky. Of note: Elk and ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Fake, painted decoys suggest immature coloring acts as a social signal, reducing aggression from territorial nesting gulls.

At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the ...

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark ...

New AI models are accelerating the game of cat-and-mouse as cybersecurity experts try to keep ahead of would-be hackers. An ...

A newly-described dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, may have glided through northwestern China about 120 million years ago, ...

Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the ...