The fossils belonged to Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the ...

The Sumatran rhino is the world’s smallest and hairiest rhinoceros species—and one of the rarest mammals on Earth. Credit: ...

Electrons inside a diamond have given a floating, centimeter-sized device a quantum nudge, opening a new path toward testing ...

A star survived the explosion that left behind Pa 30, a dandelion-shaped cloud of debris. The sharpest images yet show that ...

Mars Express can capture large stretches of the Martian surface at high resolution. Alongside ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ...

The first half of the story is well established. Wolves were eradicated from Yellowstone in the 1920s. With the wolves gone, ...

Today, Aldabra and the Galapagos are the two remaining strongholds of native wild giant tortoises, with far fewer animals in ...

Fossils of a newly recognized Egyptian crocodile species come from the same rocks as the Great Sphinx, and a missing snout ...

A sugar in red meat that the human body recognizes as foreign may help explain the food’s link to type 2 diabetes.

Sulfur dioxide escaping from Masaya already presents a hazard, with persistent emissions often reaching dangerously high ...

Fluctuating blood pressure may carry clinical information beyond a single reading. Credit: Shutterstock People with type 2 diabetes and highly variable systolic blood pressure had nearly triple the ...

Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases in which tau protein accumulates in twisted clumps. Alzheimer’s belongs to this group, but it also involves another protein, amyloid. In primary tauopathies, ...