The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you're seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and ...

Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

“Squirrels are remarkably good at what they do,” said John L. Koprowski, co-author of the book “North American Tree Squirrels ...

The IUCN warns that over 400 fungi species face extinction due to deforestation, pollution, and climate change.

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say ... Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was ...

species that historically nested in tree cavities. The human-made posts are not anything you'd find in a native prairie, true. But they only add to the value of these open spaces, said Jim ...

The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly 900,000-year-old remains were previously found at the same site, according to the research. Rather ...

“While many other acacia species have longer gestation ... “With increasing human and climatic pressures on shea trees, the project has encouraged both the communities for the plantation ...

Researchers in Tanzania have unveiled a previously unknown species of gigantic tree, Tessmannia princeps, towering over the ...