Imagine a world where forests echoed with the slow, thunderous steps of creatures as large as small cars. Millions of years ...

A recent report estimated that vultures are worth $1.8 billion a year to certain ecosystems in southern Africa. Here's why.

When crossing the Colorado, full of sandbars, the boatman would call out "mark twain" (two feet), grabbing the travelers' attention.

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, ...

The Pilbara is one of the few regions in the country where bilbies are still found. This pastoralist has been working to ...

They are called sky islands. Tall mountains surrounded by a “sea” of desert, yet, almost literally, not a drop of water to be ...

Imagine standing on a sun-drenched grassland, the air buzzing with life, when suddenly a chorus of high-pitched chirps erupts ...

From heat to invasive species, hardy heritage animal breeds can handle weather extremes that commercial breeds would be ...

A new study has investigated how the relationship between mean annual precipitation (MAP) and grassland biomass changes when one or more nutrients are added. The authors show that precipitation and ...

The fungi can’t survive without carbon, and the plants produce plenty of carbon through photosynthesis. The plants need water ...

The HPJ Live event details and speakers have been made public. The inaugural event will take place Aug. 6-8 in Wichita.

Ancient humans living about 15,000 years ago in present day Morocco may have ritualistically feasted on some of the world’s ...