A giant flying squirrel, roughly the size of a house cat, once soared through the forests of what is now Southern Appalachia.

Discover the fascinating history of the frozen continent, from heroic human explorers to the animal inhabitants that endure ...

Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...

Here are some of the weirdest things to have been found on beaches around the world, from unexploded bombs and hundreds of ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for ...

A study has suggested that the Arabian Peninsula witnessed five times more extreme rains almost 400 years ago than today.

Initially believed to be a cold, arid grassland, the stretch more resembled the modern-day Yukon-Kuskokwim floodplain.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Foundry Fest, a “Not Dead Yet!” tribute to Tom Lehrer, gospel ...

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...