The astonishingly well-preserved nasal cavity of a Neanderthal in Italy has finally settled one of the great debates in ...

We know that a great many of our Mooney Goes Wild listeners love to feed their garden birds, especially at this time of year.

Researchers were unaware that this large fossil was even an egg until they pierced through its membrane with microscopes and ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

The color, likely caused by a genetic mutation, is lovely to behold but unfortunately detrimental to the critter's chances of ...

Meet the cat-sized prehistoric scorpion with deadly venom, huge eyes and strong pincers that ruled Carboniferous forests ...

Sailfin dragons hatchlings start life as fierce riverside hunters, snapping up mice, insects, eggs, and smaller lizards. As ...

In a remarkable discovery that bridges the ancient and modern understanding of human imagination, archaeologists have unearthed a 12,000-year-old clay figurine from northern Israel that represents the ...

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others ...

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may ...

A night dive off Komodo Island, Indonesia, turned unforgettable when an underwater videographer came face-to-face with one of ...

A routine marine survey near the island of Cabrera, just south of Mallorca, turned into a breakthrough moment when scientists ...