A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice ...

Wolf cubs like the ones pictured above are genetically very similar to their earliest ancestors. The canine revision follows genetic analysis and internal examinations conducted by an international ...

A new study examined how communities changed as people shifted from hunting to farming during the Holocene era.

ANOTHER LIFE:THE INUIT WORD nunataq has always appealed to me – an evocative, spiky sound. Geology borrowed it from Greenland to describe peaks of mountains that stick up through the ice. In Ireland’s ...

New fossil research shows that humans have reshaped animal communities as extensively as the great extinctions of the Ice Age ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

New analysis of the remains of two ‘puppies’ dating back more than 14,000 years ago has shown that they are most likely wolves, and not related to domestic dogs, as previously suggested. The genetic ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

The North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre moves heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic, and it is a part of a much larger network ...