The Museum’s digitisation team has undertaken a year-long project to digitise the giant butterfly-moths, also known as the Castniidae collection. Digitiser Glory Turnbull shares more.

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that ...

After the Flood, G-d gave humans permission to eat meat, but this was a concession, as if to say: Kill if you must, but let it be animals, not other humans, that you kill.

A team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing to develop the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic change through ...

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it ...

Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea.

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

This bias can create a negative feedback loop, the paper warns, where the most-studied species keep getting studied and the ...

The first wild eggs of an endangered bird have been laid for the first time in almost four decades, and the Cincinnati Zoo & ...

Canada’s forests make up nearly one-tenth of the world’s total. We are one of the most forested countries in the world, ...

Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...