Dozens (at least) of organisms have been named after Lord of the Rings lore: creatures, locations, Elvish words, and more.

This tricky topography means the ecosystem is continually shifting very slightly. Research uncovers changing way of life in ...

It’s almost time for the Southern California Museums “Free-For-All” day, when people can visit a host of museums for free.

Researchers put the world's smallest transmitter on a spoon-billed sandpiper and uncovered new data on the species' breeding ...

Scientists studied flies to understand why insect populations are disappearing and how they adapt to temperature and climate ...

Amphibians are notably fragile in a warming world due to their dependence on external sources to regulate body heat.

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...

Researchers studied animals for two years in Namibia, Africa, and found that the presence of humans was causing many of them ...

The little rodents' genes were edited to exhibit traits associated with a woolly mammoth genome—including fluffy, ...

Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet.

NASA’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.

Tiny, cold-blooded animals like flies depend on their environment to regulate body temperature, making them ideal "canaries ...