Since the 1970s, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) have experienced catastrophic declines in coral cover, with as much ...

The movies forgot about this crucial backstory.

Why it matters: Wildlife displaced from the burn area — such as owls, hawks, raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, and even mountain ...

They might have burnt paws or singed feathers, making it hard for them to flee, and find food or water. Wildlife is already ...

By Sean Mowbray High rates of inbreeding among hooded vultures in Ghana and South Africa spell trouble for their future, ...

Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen shares a lot of characteristics from her great ancestors, Rhaenyra and Daemon.

Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as ...

Neanderthal remains found in France support the theory that their isolated, antisocial lifestyle and inbreeding contributed ...

A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history's great mysteries—what killed off the Neanderthals?

Inbreeding depression, the reduced fitness of inbred relative to outbred individuals was described more than two centuries ago, long before the development of population genetics. Its impact is ...