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 ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...

"Meat consumption was the most common motive for harvesting megafauna for all classes except reptiles where harvesting eggs was ranked on top." (William Ripple et al.) I just learned of a new and ...

Way back in the hunter-gatherer age, when humans were just figuring out animal domestication, animals had to have all four of ...

Scavengers like turkey vultures remove millions of tons of waste each year by consuming carrion. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Scavengers are in trouble—and their decline could be harmful to human ...

Unseen but all around us, the air we breathe in enclosed spaces is crucial to our health and well-being. Indoor air is not simply outdoor air that has been run through a filter: it has its own ...