A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Noise pollution is affecting bird behaviour across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

A conservation journal is to release a study on an endemic Bermuda snail once thought to be extinct. A small colony of ...

Books & the Arts / In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free ...

The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

Women in India were told they couldn't be paid for their eggs. The result: a black market for eggs from women in need of money to survive.

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...