James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

The Wild Ones contend with rapids, bees, and poachers’ snares to gather critical data on one of the world’s rarest tigers.

O rcas are easily recognized by their jet-black bodies punctuated with striking white markings, most notably the “eye patch” ...

A fter more than 40 years of exploration and excavations at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, researchers have finally unearthed a tomb belonging to one of its rulers. Even more significantly, the ...

B urmese pythons ( Python bivittatus) don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the ...

Because it has natural language capabilities – powered by the same kind of machine learning that underpins ChatGPT – the ...

The meteorite is going up for auction on July 16 at Sotheby’s Natural History sale in New York, and it is estimated to reach ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

Why was the adder going for prey so much bigger than itself? Turns out, it was likely in need of a hefty meal. “The female ...

Increasingly large numbers of people seem to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, or recorded lectures at faster speeds, but what ...

From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...