The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot which had only recently been returned to its natural habitat in Brazil have ...

Authorities across Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia worked on Thursday to reach residents trapped in floods that have killed ...

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

New research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean's surface are not immune from the burden of toxic ...

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft following a ...

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...

RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function ...