An elephant not seen in several years was recently captured on camera strolling through a national park in Senegal. This ...

The scientists that discovered the remains in China believe the DNA can play a big part in unlocking the history of Tibet.

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Letter writers blames the poor, elderly, and children. One writer challenges a columnist's argument about public education funding. Other writers express distrust in those who vote to restrict ...

Commercial diver and part-time conservationist Bourton Scott has made a passion project out of searching out and cleaning up the unseen threat posed by “ghost gear,” the commercial nets and ...

More sampling from ancient and modern people living in the region ... had a secret—her 7,100-year-old bones deepened the mystery of a ghost lineage in Tibet’s past. Ancient DNA is usually ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia. The photos were believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people and will be given to a ...

You know the sounds really old people make all the time? Well, young people are now making them - here is why. QUESTION: Dear Dr Zac, I don’t know what is happening to me but in the last 12 ...

A video from the scene showed the tree had snapped at the trunk, just above the roots, although what caused it to collapse is not immediately clear. A dozen people, including foreign tourists ...