Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

There were no public comments on proposed updates to the Muscatine County Comprehensive Land Use Plan Monday morning during a ...

Zoologists in London are celebrating the birth of tiny endangered Chilean froglets after a mission to save them from ...

Annual dues the Illinois Farm Bureau pays to the American Farm Bureau Federation will go up in the midst of ongoing ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Here, around 5,400 bison roam freely, and they still exhibit the same wild behaviors as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. A seemingly tranquil group of bison can get spooked and start running ...

Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass extinction that wiped out all ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...