When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found.

After a quiz bowl changed her path, Dr. Zena Herrera returns to Arkansas to study how pregnancy stress and production shape ...

The Berks County Kennel Club is accepting applications for a scholarship given to a Berks high school senior planning on continuing their education in the field of animal science. Email mclviz@aol.com ...

From animal science to aerospace and mechanical engineering, Iowa State University students share a broad range of interests.

It's that time of year again – and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on – when we recap the many fascinating discoveries in the plant and animal kingdom that made headlines in 2025.

At the Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh in Homewood, on average, dogs get outside about 20 minutes a day. But now you have the chance to take them outside the shelter for hours as a part of a new ...

PITTSBURGH — Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh has launched “Barks & Rec,” a new volunteer field trip program for shelter dogs, just in time for National Take a Hike Day on Nov. 17. The program ...

As a meteorologist and professor at the University of Georgia, I am fascinated by storms and love college football. In this space, I usually write about the science of storms and other weather-climate ...

University of California, Santa Cruz, faculty members Rita Mehta and Colleen Reichmuth have been named California Academy of Sciences Fellows, joining a governing group of more than 500 distinguished ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a huge weak spot in the geomagnetic field off South America, has expanded and sprouted a lobe in the direction of Africa over the past decade. When you purchase through ...