Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

Massive underground tunnels discovered across South America are not human-made. Scientists now believe extinct giant ground ...

Humans are a bit like meerkats when it comes to pairing up, according to a study that examined the monogamous lifestyles of ...

Just as humans have historically gathered during winter, many animals do the same. Animals may not be exchanging presents or ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A new study that examined animal species with a cancer resistance gene could provide help for human cancer research. Scientists have long been intrigued by Peto’s Paradox, which ...

In the United States, the animals most likely to kill humans are not the largest predators but the familiar species people ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

Scavengers like turkey vultures remove millions of tons of waste each year by consuming carrion. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Scavengers are in trouble—and their decline could be harmful to human ...

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