At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

million-year-old fossils revealed that this species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, ...

Though there were setbacks on climate change and funding for science this year, there was still plenty of amazing discoveries ...

If your company still operates like an Indian ministry with layers of approvals, ritual meetings of nodding heads, and ...

As Earth's temperature rises sharply, the threat of a global mass extinction has loomed. But U of A researchers say that fear ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

Australia's University of Wollongong (UOW) and Indonesian scientists have uncovered compelling new evidence that severe drought, caused by a changing climate, sparked one of the great mysteries in ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

Woodpeckers have extraordinarily long tongues to locate and capture various hard-to-reach insects living inside the wood of trees.

The Chathams sit roughly 785 kilometers (488 miles) east of mainland New Zealand and have long been a crucible of endemic ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...