Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world -- they are its architects. A new study has revealed how hundreds of species shape the landscapes we depend on, from vast termite mounds visible ...

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

Spanning 34 miles, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) is the largest sea-crossing bridge-and-tunnel system in the world ...

New Yorkers hold a memorial for Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle owl who died last week, leaving cards in his memory under a tree ...

For 30 years now, scientists have worried about the possibility of a human outbreak of bird flu . Today, however, many experts believe we're closer than ever to a new pandemic. But the big ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck Russia's Altai Republic in southern Siberia on Saturday morning, according to Russian seismologists. The quake occurred at 8:48 a.m local time (0148 GMT), ...

M y wife — as usual — understood the situation before I did. The night before, Monday, Jan. 6, we’d both been awoken by the wind. Hundred-year-old pine branches snapping off like matchsticks. Iron ...