Long’uro struggles to connect with other elephants after losing his trunk as a baby. Play is how young elephants build bonds, ...

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of ...

A wild elephant has once again crossed the Mekong River from Thailand into Laos, continuing a puzzling annual migration, officials said on 30 March. Vissanu Kumpa, head of the Phu Wua Wildlife ...

In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking across a hillside in Morocco when something unusual caught her eye. A slab of sedimentary rock was ...

Discover 15 incredible animals we might lose by 2030. See the rare photos and facts about these endangered species.

"Seatbelt Check." Funny Nature Finalist. I was on a safari on the Maasai Mara in Kenya and was about to record a female ...

The world cheered when Alex Honnold free-climbed a 101-story skyscraper in Taipei. Gather now, fickle public, to applaud the ...

Certain smaller sauropods could stand on their hind legs with surprising ease, giving them access to higher food and a defensive edge. Computer simulations show their bones handled stress better than ...

A bottle of wine from 1945 became the most expensive bottle of the beverage ever sold at auction when it fetched a price of ...

The craze for collecting ants takes Kenya by surprise as smugglers zone in to make a profit.

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...