Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

Human diets have evolved through a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors from the Pleistocene era to the present day. This ...

Sunbirds like me can’t handle the frigid winter temperatures and always look for sunny places to sunbathe instead of ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

Tom Petty may have had some of the greatest songs in heartland rock, but there are some tunes in his catalogue that don't deserve to be repeated.

A Journey Through America's Heartland The Mississippi River, often referred to as the "Father of Waters," offers a majestic ...

It’s a girl! Point Defiance Zoo recently welcomed a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf. Her name is Ume, which means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese. The zoo says her keeper staff chose the ...

Still the Semler family vowed to rebuild. And, as a sort of symbol of that rebirth, a towering sculpture was created out of the remains of the family’s car collection, incorporating the burned chassis ...

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines ...

The bill would cut in half the amount of allowable profit Rhode Island Energy can make off electricity and gas.