A healthy bat hangs in a cave, resting up to eat its weight in bugs at dusk. Most Americans tend to think about bats only ...

Families in Mongbwalu grieve as Ebola returns, exposing serious gaps in healthcare and outbreak preparedness.

On a night the Thunder had to beat the Spurs, it did so for lots of reasons. None, however, was bigger than Isaiah ...

Alaska’s Cook Inlet was home to nearly 1,300 beluga whales in the late 1970s, but today the population hovers around 300.

Wikimedia This mountain town occupies the Middlesboro Basin, which sounds like a boring geography term until you learn that ...

Brain size and bipedalism are the most likely drivers of our species’ right-hand dominance, according to new research ...

Since its founding in 1846, the Smithsonian has acquired collections of human remains for scientific research, most during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The remains have facilitated scientific ...

Tall, graceful, and among the rarest birds on earth. Here are eight things you probably didn't know about this awe-inspiring ...

Most predators hunt with eyes or speed. This blind, burrowing mole hunts with 25,000 touch receptors — and wins in 8 just ...