ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEA collaboration for the first time has been collecting evidence that the magnetic sense of migratory songbirds like European birds is based on a particular light-sensitive protein in the eye.
A near-perfectly fossil found in China, called Homo longi or "Dragon Man," represents a new human species that is said to be closely linked to Homo sapiens, replacing Neanderthals.
A new study recently showed a highly venomous caterpillar, specifically, the one native to South East Queensland exhibits potential for use in medicines, as well as pest control.
A new Neanderthal-like lineage was discovered in Israel. The findings suggest possible interactions of the ancient human species, as well as sharing of the continental territory.
An in-depth look into what a giant sea anemone eats reveals a surprising part of its diet. Analysis showed that giant plumose anemone eats ants, and occasionally spiders, which are insects that are not found in the sea.
Gallaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was an ancient Roman province in what is now Northwest Iberia - and modern technology has helped uncover a long-lost camp in the high ground built and used by Roman soldiers to take the region.
Scientists have recently detected an earthquake through the use of instruments they put inside a flying balloon above California, the same mechanism that could soon detect "venusquakes."
Various experts from different institutions have uncovered the tiny bones of Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Arctic region. The findings suggest that dinosaurs had a maternity ward in the northern hemisphere and that the ancient creatures themselves may have not been cold-blooded.
Researchers from Cornell University investigates how mosquito mating cue harmonic convergence affects the immune response of their offspring and its possible implications to disease transmission and control.
A 9,000-year-old stone tool artifact was recently found by a team of underwater archaeologists, believed to have originated from a quarry in what is now central Oregon - a location 2,000 miles away.
Scientists are baffled by the suspicious deaths of birds across the United States. Wildlife experts in at least states are now investigating the cause of bird deaths.
Researchers have unearthed the fossilized skulls of an ancient bird in China that has similar skull features and functions to the apex predator, the T.Rex