Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.

You can have young healthy seedlings one day and decimated stubs the next. Garden pests work quickly, so it helps to have a ...

Politicians in quest of votes flit among so many focal points. No one’s ever heard them mention looking for the votes of bird ...

Factory farming has made us think of chickens as mindless automata. But our downy friends know much more than we give them credit for.

They're heavy, bad flyers, and "not particularly smart", according a wildlife group. But after a brush with fate, the ...

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The Public Health Agency of Canada has confirmed the first human case of bird flu in the country, believed to be caused by the H5N1 virus. The British Columbia patient is not only the first ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada has confirmed the first human case of bird flu, caused by the H5N1 virus. The British Colombia patient has made history becoming the country’s first-ever ...

Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of 31 books of nonfiction for adults and children, ...

which are abundant in wild birds and domestic poultry, but are also found in the conjunctiva, the tissue surrounding human eyes. The receptors that predominate in human upper airways are known as ...