Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

The Pawtucket Animal Shelter asking for the public’s assistance finding the owner of a severely emaciated dog who was found ...