Midway University, founded in 1847, stands as one of Kentucky’s educational pioneers. The historic campus buildings, set against rolling Kentucky landscapes, create a picture-perfect academic setting ...

Midway University, founded in 1847 as the Kentucky Female Orphan School, stands as one of the state’s educational pioneers. The historic campus buildings, set against rolling Kentucky landscapes, ...

This summer marks half a century since the Hagerman Fauna Site in southern Idaho was recognized as a National Natural ...

Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but ...

GUIDE: Horses are one of humankind's oldest companions, but their story in North America is one of extraordinary twists and ...

This discovery is the first of its kind, with a perfectly preserved 3-month horse of a now-extinct species in the Siberian ...

and the 70,814 species that have been assessed represent 5.5% of all described wildlife species alive today. "Our analysis is meant to be a preliminary effort toward assessing climate risk to ...

but some researchers question whether species should be named after people at all. A tiny snail was named Anauchen picasso, after the blocky whorls on the shell reminded researchers ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Those many millions of years have given birds time to evolve into some 11,000 species, and keeping track of all those species—not to mention their evolutionary history–can be quite the challenge.

"Freshwater landscapes are home to 10% of all known species on Earth and key for billions of people's safe drinking water, livelihoods, flood control and climate change mitigation, and must be ...