A decade of modest financial investment has revitalized Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, explains biologist Sean B. Carroll in his new book The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discovery How Life... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Creature was not a segmented worm or a free-swimming slug, as once hypothesized, but rather a type of jawless fish called a lamprey -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Researchers explain how they tied a period of fierce, extensive volcanic activity to a terrible extinction that nearly wiped all life off our planet -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Pounding and slicing meat and vegetables would have saved our ancestors millions of tough chews a year—potentially explaining the evolution of smaller jaws and teeth. Christopher Intagliata... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The dragonfly Pantala flavescens can travel 9,000 to 11,000 miles, and may interbreed across the globe. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com