A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

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

Louisiana has become home to numerous invasive species, some of them wreaking havoc on the state's environment. Here are the ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Focusing on brightly plumaged and familiar birds can leave important conservation questions unanswered — and even put less ...

Unlike other related species, atra tree snakes darken in color as they ... on a rainforest ridge and at “severely degraded human-modified habitats at a mine site, including alongside a building ...

Cheng-Han Sun Since being named from a small group of fossils found in Denisova Cave in 2010, the Denisovans have remained an enigmatic branch on the human family tree. Research into the species has ...

but for years scientists failed to nail down exactly where it fit in the human family tree. Now, scientists have been able to confirm the identity of the mystery fossil, known as Penghu 1 ...

Increased tree diversity also leads to greater storage ... assisting migration and colonization of native species, reducing human impacts, monitoring and adaptive management, engagement with ...

human spaces. The Chinese tallow trees is a deciduous tree that's native to Eastern Asia and is an invasive species within most of the Southeastern U.S. In Louisiana, this tree grows in every ...

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