With its striking San Francisco Bay settings, director Alfred Hitchcock's iconic horror film "The Birds" has captivated audiences for more than 60 years. For Hitchcock, the film—set in an ocean-side town terrorized by swarming, ...
Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest known ancestors of the modern ...
The La Venta fossil site in Colombia is home to a rich fossil record, yielding a particularly diverse set of vertebrate fossil assemblages. The giant terror bird (phorusrhacid) and caiman—a large crocodile-like reptile—were ...
Protected areas are crucial for wildlife conservation, but many are under unprecedented pressure associated with exponential human population growth in West Africa. In Togo, two national parks that previously hosted iconic ...
Something dangerous is happening to the U.S. economy, and it's not inflation or trade wars. Chaotic deregulation and the selective enforcement of laws have upended markets and investor confidence. At one point, the threat ...
Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine.
Why do social injustices and ecological harms persist despite the powerful social movements that have arisen throughout history to counter them?
Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its kind—providing new information ...
Over the last decade, hundreds of reports have cropped up across the Chicago area of people's horrifying encounters with a large, winged creature with glowing red eyes. Last month, Park Ridge residents looked out their windows ...
What good are wasps? It's a question we hear all the time. And, let's face it, wasps are routinely demonized.
