Spread by parasitic worms that can infect via a splash of water, schistosomiasis causes debilitating symptoms. It hits kids ...

A treasure trove of rare freshwater fossils has been described from Taiwan in a new study. Dating back to the Early Pleistocene, over 1 million years ago, they include a baby snail preserved inside ...

Field work in a remote part of the city's Northside is unearthing everyday items that people left thousands of years ago.

The use of tools was a determining factor for the biological and cultural evolution of the human species (Richerson and Boyd, 2006). The first studies addressing the use of tools by other animals in ...

Off the Gulf Coast of Florida, a vast underwater prairie stretches across the seafloor — seagrass meadows that have quietly sheltered sea turtles, manatees, and countless fish for thousands of years.

A planned snail racing event has been pulled by a council after animal rights activists complained it could cause injury to the creatures. The event was part of Nottingham's Great Big Green Week at ...

‡ Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 25 Reymonta Str., 30-059 Krakow, Poland § AGH University of Science and Technology, Academic Centre for Materials and ...

But in this area, a large section from beneath the Tethys Sea was scraped off and thrust onto the Arabian plate in a process called obduction. Dubai lies to the west of the limestone ridges, and the ...