Recent research involving ancient marine animals shows how humans and other animals still carry some of those animals' characteristics with us today. Now another study has shown that the earliest ...

Bacteria are everywhere, even inside of our bodies, and they are thought to date back to the early days of life on Earth. These single-celled organisms are classified differently than animals' ...

Eat almost anything. Sleep almost anywhere. These, it seems, are the secrets to surviving in the city as a wild animal. Among the species that dominate urban spaces—pigeons, cockroaches, rats, ...

The devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 set off a series of events which have long fascinated scientists like me. It was so powerful that it caused 5 million tonnes of debris to wash into ...