Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

Of extinct Ice Age animals, woolly mammoths are probably one of the most famous. But if they were still around, then our ...

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Archaeologists have excavated a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia, suggesting some monumental walls on the Eurasian ...

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The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed wildcat, but experts and information on the ...

Another unusually harsh winter in Mongolia that's decimating livestock and sending temperatures to minus 56 degrees Celsius (minus 70 Fahrenheit) may create a humanitarian crisis, with worse ...

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Kazakhstan said Wednesday it will authorize the hunting of saiga antelopes, once an endangered species that the government ...

Before giant waves slammed into Sri Lanka and India coastlines ten days ago, wild and domestic animals seemed to know what was about to happen and fled to safety. According to eyewitness accounts ...

(Read about nature’s living fireworks—animals that bioluminesce.) If you shine a light on a comb jelly, light refracted off its moving cilia might be mistaken for bioluminescence. Their true ...