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A biologist explains why there won’t be a chicken uprising anytime soon.

These winged mammals can cover a lot of ground during their seasonal migrations.

In his new book ‘Penelope,’ author Paul Bochner recounts ‘one of the greatest loves I have ever known.’

They may look clean, but not from a microbial perspective.

A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world’s most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but such projects in other nations have often fallen short.

A chance Instagram post led to a big discovery in Colombia.

There’s lots to dig into in this hugely popular messaging app.

In a handful of animals, tumors can be transmitted like infectious diseases or parasites, defying science’s tidy definitions.

The calf was transported over 800 miles to safety—without becoming a snack.

The latest designations are located in Alaska all the way to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Pollen shows how present-day New Mexico completely transformed within only a few decades.

A fungal disease has wiped out up to 97 percent of northern long-eared bats in North America.