A paleoecologist explains what pollen in fossilized mammal urine can reveal about past ecosystems and environmental change. This article was…
Spend a Day Tracking ChimpanzeesA series of short videos captures a rare view into the lives of wild chimps through the eyes of a…
Do Strict Criminal Penalties Protect Animals From Abuse?In Mexico, a growing animal protection movement often promotes harsh criminal punishment for those who abuse animals. But are these…
Past and Present Approaches to the Management of Red DeerAn archaeologist weighs the pros and cons driving debates around the rising population of Scotland’s renowned animal and explains what…
What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal CareUnraveling a mystery around millennia-old goat bones, an archaeologist reflects on the harm people can cause their most cherished animals.…
Forensic Methods Unveil Clues About Megafauna ExtinctionsAn archaeologist explains how novel applications of forensic methods—namely, blood residue analyses—have yielded evidence that Paleoindians hunted mastodons, mammoths, and…
What Spider Games Say About ArachnophobiaMany people around the world fear spiders. But in the Philippines, the tradition of spider wrestling often brings people and…
Scientists Uplift Indigenous Human-Horse HistoriesAn archaeologist and a Lakota genomics scientist explain how combining archaeology, DNA, and Indigenous knowledge can help revise colonial human-horse…
Unearthing Culinary Pasts—With Help From Llama PoopA food archaeologist investigates everyday eating and lean times among the ancient Moche of Peru through a remarkable discovery of…
Twitter’s Blue Tick Is a Fake SignalEvolutionary theory can help us better understand the recent debacle about social media platforms’ popular symbol as a signaling problem.…
