Today I'd like to focus on passerine birds again, and this time on a group that I don't think I've ever blogged about before: the certhioids. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The latest molecular analyses and fossil finds suggest that the story of human evolution is far more complex—and more interesting—than anyone imagined -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Book scorpions are the best/worst thing to happen to books, because book scorpions! But also book scorpions... Properly known as pseudoscorpions, these tiny, tiny creatures have a fondness for old... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Many kinds of archaic humans walked the planet at the same time. How did Homo sapiens come to be the last species standing? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - Conservation groups on Friday hailed a court decision that blocks Montana from building roads and logging in nearly 37,000 acres of a state forest that serves as core... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A rare Florida panther, found near death as a 1-pound newborn in January, bounded into its permanent new fenced home in a state park on Thursday, now a lively, nearly 50-pound kitten. "He's... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com