A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

A megalodon tooth found 2 miles down in the Pacific, sitting exactly where it fell millions of years ago, is rewriting what ...

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In the summer of 2020, my husband, Ryan, and I bought a house in Portland, Ore., with a sizable backyard containing little ...

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

While the Iran war and its aftermath dominate news headlines, a critical market factor often overlooked is liquidity in ...

We tend to think that animals avoid inbreeding at all costs, but scientific studies contradict that assumption ...

On the Tuesday, June 23, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: In “The God Test,” Robert Wright argues that the real challenge of AI isn’t just building smarter machines—it’s deciding whether we can ...

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IDAHO FALLS — The Idaho Falls Zoo is excited to introduce its newest resident, Lenny, a male snow leopard who recently ...

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Since 2008, rules requiring ships to slow down to avoid collisions with North Atlantic right whales have reduced fatalities of the critically endangered animals. Now, NOAA is calling the regulations ...