Heavy metal pollution is usually associated with modern, large-scale industrialisation. However, humans have processed metals ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

Early excavators discovered skulls with cut marks, which have long fueled theories of cannibalism in Maszycka Cave. But researchers had no surefire way to prove human consumption of these remains.

This discovery, made in the Maszycka Cave in Poland, provides new data on mortuary and ritual practices during this prehistoric period. Using advanced 3D microscopy techniques, the researchers were ...

The situation has led to a collision between humans and grizzlies ... “is like a bread crumb on a bear trail.” Back in the laboratory, the scientists compared the hair samples collected ...

With some creative thinking – and the help of a rotisserie chicken – the team successfully coaxed Barry into coming out from his bear cave, according to CNN affiliate KCAL. The team used a ...

Since this newly discovered fungus only affects spiders, humans need not worry about Gibellula attenboroughii, Nelsen said. “While there are absolutely some cave-dwelling fungi that are ...

A bear that attacked a Pennsylvania man earlier ... Rabies is a deadly viral infection that attacks the nervous system in humans and animals, causing brain and spinal cord inflammation.