I often hear people say I wish we could return to the good old days when times were much simpler. However in remembering the past, we often choose to remember the good times and forget the bad times.

In 1999, Senator John McCain of Arizona introduced a law that helped cut down on this persistent source of human noise ... interrupted only by the occasional seal, Gentoo penguin or skua bird.

Ideally we'd seal these items off in a dark, absolutely dust-free, pest-free, strictly climate-controlled chamber. But people need to be able to study them, and human contact is the biggest cause ...

There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in ...

Wild animals that have acquired adaptations to maximize their reproductive output in some of the world's most extreme ...

Wielding a sharpened piece of volcanic glass, Tim Ackerman sliced into the thawing carcass of a harbor seal. “You want to keep parallel to the hide like this, as close as you can to the skin ...

In my recent analysis of societal stability, I compared human society to vampire bat colonies. A colony that practises unconditional generosity may flourish briefly but won’t endure over time.

In a global comparison, the glaciers in the Alps and ... rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

Kochi: Two tribal persons, who had gone to collect forest produce in the Athirappilly forest in Thrissur district of Kerala, were killed in an attack by a wild elephant. Police suspect that the ...