When food is plentiful and chimps are more chummy, they harbor an increased number of different bacterial species in their bellies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The enormous herbivore is the newest permanent exhibit to join the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The remains of a clearly butchered woolly mammoth in Siberia date to 45,000 years ago, 10 millennia earlier than when humans were thought to have crossed north of the Arctic circle -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
More members of an urban swan population that lets humans get near have a particular genetic variant than do a rural swan group that tends to take off when humans approach -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The University of Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Hippos eat meat more than had been thought, a practice that could explain their susceptibility to anthrax die-offs when they consume infected animals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientists find a layer of plastics, radiation and soot embedded in the planet's surface, defining a new Anthropocene epoch -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Many non-African humans today have genes—which apparently made it into us via Neandertals—that ramp up resistance to pathogens, but bring on allergies, too. Christopher Intagliata reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com