Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

A newly identified shrew from the Ethiopian highlands weighs just 3 grams, making it one of the smallest mammals ever ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

Scientists are making new discoveries every day, but many of them fall under the radar. Some of these findings are ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...