In a sunlit classroom at Ethiopia's Holeta Polytechnic College, animal science students clustered around a table as Chinese instructor Ma Yujie demonstrated surgical suturing.

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

The powerful Greek gods were reflected in the natural world, and certain animals served as their symbols. Credit: Following Hadrian / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 The awe-inspiring Greek gods, ...

Eastern Africa's earliest livestock herders continued fishing, hunting and gathering for centuries after livestock were first ...

Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for illegal wildlife trade. Nonprofits with hotlines to report trafficking produce an outsized ...

Ethiopian wolves are the rarest canids on Earth, with fewer than 500 individuals surviving in the isolated highlands of Ethiopia . Unlike most wolves that hunt large prey in packs, these slender ...

Putting cash in the hands of people in need can enable up to 38 per cent more aid to actually reach people in need, the ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

In Ladakh, Himalayan wolves are increasingly breeding with feral dogs, giving rise to a new animal known as khipshang that ...