The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot which had only recently been returned to its natural habitat in Brazil have ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

New research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean's surface are not immune from the burden of toxic ...

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft following a ...

RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function ...

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...