Federal authorities followed a trail of blood to discover a Bengal tiger cub in a dog crate, leading to charges against a ...

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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.