At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...
Under the proposed measure, students pursuing graduate degrees outside of ‘professional’ programs are limited to borrowing $20,500 a year, while professional degree students can borrow up to $50,000 a ...
With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...
In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t just any ...
Several years ago, on a casual clear-my-head walk around my neighborhood, I noticed a crow watching me. I paused. I looked more closely. Something in her shiny black eye revealed an intelligence I had ...
It went from one of the worst zoos in America to a beloved menagerie filled with disabled and elderly native species. Now it may close for good. It went from one of the worst zoos in America to a ...
Hundreds of New Yorkers toted their fluffy, winged and scaled family members to St. John the Divine in Manhattan Sunday morning for a special benediction at the Episcopal church’s annual Blessing of ...
New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...
Major shifts in the high school landscape in Oregon could be on the horizon in the next couple of months. The Classification and District Committee of the Oregon School Activities Association has ...
Former athlete and Emmy-winning sports reporter Lindsay Simpson suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2018 that nearly took her life. At a recent event held by the National Academies of Sciences, ...
The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Scholars and schoolchildren alike have generally classified animals by the foods they eat: carnivores eat meat; browsers consume flowering plants, conifers and ...