America's public lands policy has emphasized 'the greatest good of the greatest number.' 'Drill, baby, drill' isn't that.

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Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

IT may be an unconscious bias but being attracted to people who look like your parents is surprisingly common – even among celebrities. Cruz Beckham has become the latest celeb to fall into ...

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A couple of ideas were rolling around for Lia Strell when she was a young girl—one was that she’d become a marine biologist ...

Animal research has always walked a tightrope between necessity and controversy. It has yielded critical breakthroughs in ...

The eight years between 2015 and 2022 were the hottest on record. In 2022, 850 million people lived in regions that experienced all-time high temperatures. Globally, killer heat waves are becoming ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

Teeth are sensitive because they evolved from sensory tissue in both ancient vertebrates and ancient arthropods.

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...