Scientists say urban raccoons’ shorter snouts and calmer reactions to people mirror traits found in domesticated animals ...

Competition over smart glasses among Chinese tech heavyweights has intensified toward the end of the year. After Baidu and ...

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ancient people had already figured out how to extract every bit of ...

A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, ...

One prominent theory suggests hiccups are a vestige of early vertebrate evolution, from a time when animals were transitioning from water to land. These early creatures often had both gills and ...

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 edition of the Lassen County Times. Honeybees have made it through the last 20 million years in a changing world ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

An ecologist at the IPCC for over 25 years, Camille Parmesan, who is also a refugee scientist, explains how to preserve ...