Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

While the lake is said to have been discovered in 1905 by a 13-year-old boy named Ben Sands, the surrounding caverns were used by the Cherokee, and 20,000-year-old jaguar tracks were also found there.

Cheetahs once roamed across most of Africa and parts of Asia, but now live in just 9% of their previous range and haven't ...

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...

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A father and son allegedly beat a gunman with a baseball bat after he shot them at a Brooklyn NYCHA building on Monday ...

Recently, I joined an expedition to Baja Sur as Natural History Museum scientists explored its canyons and mountaintops, in ...

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