This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.

Two Goliath beetle species are in grave danger because cocoa farming has wiped out their forests and they’re being sold on ...

The findings push back the timing of ancient human rainforest occupation "by more than double," said archaeologist Eslem Ben ...

For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a ...

Nevada has a unique history with water and land, making it a surprisingly diverse place for wildlife. But recent pressures threaten its species.

Researchers calculated that creatures large and small rival the landscape reshaping power of half a million major floods each ...

It is a well documented fact that Australia has one of the worst records in the world for mammal extinctions. Since European ...

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert ...

An international study led by the University of Freiburg, published in Global Change Biology, has found that forests with ...