For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is easily recognized across the world. With their long necks and distinctive ...

Modern conservation technology has one simple goal, even though achieving it is anything but simple: to spot a threat or ...

In the summer of 2021, a woman in the Atlanta area was forced to surrender her pet serval, a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, after it escaped from her home and wandered into a neighbor’s ...

Hawks have long been symbols of power, precision, and dominance in the sky. Found across much of the world, these formidable ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

THE use of chemicals around the world is worsening. Artificial substances that are in the nature of chemicals improve products used by consumers but all too often, people and the environment are ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

The government seeking to consolidate laws governing animal husbandry, animal health and fisheries under one legistation in a move aimed at closing regulatory gaps and aligning the sector with ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Small hamlet recognised as England’s first dark sky community - Thorington Street in Dedham Vale has been handed the accolade ...

For years, a few tiny shrew specimens collected in Ethiopia puzzled researchers. They were noticeably smaller than any known species, yet the evidence was scattered across different expeditions and ...