New research shows that proboscis bats communicate with each other and echolocate at higher frequencies than scientists ...

From a greater sage-grouse performing a mating display to a tawny frogmouth making a funny face, these photographs capture the breathtaking diversity of the world’s avian species ...

Researchers found signs of healing on her 700-year-old skull, which suggests that she survived the painful sanction—and may even have gone on to wear a prosthesis ...

Between 1924 and 1950, Georgia Tann placed more than 5,000 children—many of them seized from their parents without permission—with wealthy families across the U.S ...

The artwork reflects the famed Impressionist’s later, abstract style. Sotheby’s estimates that it will sell for $25 million ...

A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 ...

Two separate types of progenitor cells give rise to the front and back of the organ, according to a new study. The findings can help researchers study human diseases that affect the hindbrain, since i ...

At least 800,000 bees were stolen from several properties in far north Queensland, Australia. The theft coincides with the recent spread of a bee-killing parasite throughout the region. Tanner Smida ...

The museum lovingly called the "Blacksonian" chronicles the past and present and envisions the future to tell the stories of Black life in America ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American paddlefish, the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs ...

Researchers recorded footage of wild chimps in Senegal showing youngsters how to use sticks to fish out ants and how to smash baobab fruit against rocks to open it, among other instances of instructio ...

Puberty, pregnancy and menopause are the three major hormonal transitions for the female brain. Researchers already knew that ...