From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species ...

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DURING the last decade taxonomy has not merely experienced a revival but has also become one of the active growing points of biology. It is the focus round which genetics, ecology, field natural ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department leadership is proposing cutting some offices and dramatically restructuring the ...

The newly released episode 6 of Amazon’s “House of David” opens with a mythical origin sequence for the character Goliath, created in an inventive way by incorporating generative AI tools in ...

In Lake Victoria, a giant lake shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, over a quarter of endemic species, including countless cichlids, are either critically endangered or extinct. But for some ...

This raises a key question for forest managers: which tree species have the greatest mitigation potential? INRAE and Bordeaux Sciences Agro conducted a study to identify the tree characteristics ...

Over the past 50 years, is there anyone who’s written with more breadth, cogency and conviviality about the intersection of art and politics? A few years ago, mid-performance at London’s Wigmore Hall, ...