The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

In 2025, even a challenged television landscape was rife with transportive stories. From streamers to broadcast networks, ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

If spandrels remind us to look for unintended byproducts in organisms, the metaphor helps us analyze our own conservation ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

One of the few enduring mysteries of the "Star Wars" universe, the Bothans still have yet to appear in a movie or TV show.

Let’s Go Birding’, a bird-themed stamp exhibition by philatist Ramu M Srinivasa, showcases nearly 2,300 different species of ...

The Menominee view the buffalo as a keystone species, like the sturgeon, and the tribe is learning how to take care of them.

The twin lakes, known as Zerelia, in Greece are rare examples of bodies of water that were formed from the cataclysmic impact of a meteorite.

If someone mentions criminal gangs, you might think of drug trafficking or financial crime. But one of the most persistent illegal trades in the world flies largely under the radar: wildlife smuggling ...

Dr. Hein was drawn to the natural history of misinformation through his research on fish. He and his colleagues observed the ...