Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

When I first heard rumblings that the world had assembled a conclave to elect a new celebrity zoo animal, I felt preemptively ...

Genes are short sections of DNA that determine an animal’s traits—everything from coat color and claw strength to body shape ...

A key characteristic of modern human society is rapid urbanization, a process that can reshape natural environments and disrupt the habitats of many organisms. One widespread byproduct of urbanization ...

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, ...

When people talk about saving wildlife, they often focus on numbers. Conversations center on how many deer live in a forest, ...

The Tulsa Zoo announced Tuesday that more than 200 Asian giant toads have successfully hatched at the facility, marking a ...

As spaceflight shifts from rare government missions to something closer to routine travel and work, one awkward question is getting harder to ignore: what happens to human reproductive health away ...

"If reproduction is ever to occur beyond Earth, it must do so with a clear commitment to safety, transparency and ethical integrity." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A children’s book with explicit illustrations of animal mating has sparked a challenge in Florida's Orange County Public Schools this month but will remain available in four middle school libraries ...