National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

Despite the vast numbers of animal species already identified, the natural world is still capable of springing a few ...

The newly published Urban Greening ‘How-To’ Toolkit offers clear, science-based guidance developed through the UK Research ...

Two weeks after the devastating fire in Tai Po, it’s clear the fault lies beyond Hong Kong’s iconic plant ...

To the naked eye, a forest is a quiet place, and the trees are the quietest. However, researchers like Dr. Richard Karban, a formally trained ecologist and member of the UC Davis Entomology Department ...

The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction in the wild. Conservationists hope it could help slow the ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the heavy brow ridges and projecting midfaces of Neanderthals, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 ...

Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

To properly manage a tree, you need to know what species it is. Plus, tree identification is a lot of fun. Knowing a tree’s species is key to understanding their proper growing conditions, how to ...