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The black-footed ferret is North America's rarest mammal, with only about 300 estimated to survive in the wild at the end of 2015. The species has been listed as endangered since 1967, and its survival is closely tied to prairie dogs, which provide almost all of its food as well as the burrow systems the ferrets use for shelter.

Just like everything else in the world, even food is coming to have its own trends. From a Mediterranean diet to a protein-rich diet, people are trying everything on the internet to be able to achieve their "ideal" body.

Avocados growing in Nicaragua may carry a remarkable record of ancient human migration across the Americas. A new study published in 'Plants, People, Planet' has found that several avocado varieties growing in Nicaragua are genetically distinct from the commercial varieties commonly found today and are more closely related to avocado populations from South America.

What happens when a healthy forest is repeatedly hit by the kind of flooding associated with extreme storms and rising seas? Scientists in Maryland decided to find out by bringing the flood to the trees.

A 236-million-year-old fossil from Argentina may have provided the earliest evidence yet that an animal on the evolutionary lineage leading to mammals gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs. The research study published in the 'Frontiers', analysed the bones of 'Chiniquodon theotonicus,' a dog-sized carnivorous cynodont that lived during the Late Triassic.

Scientists uncover the genetic origins of Friedreich's ataxia, revealing its prevalence among Eurasians due to unique mutations.

Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island. Unable to take it with them, they snapped some pictures, took some bones and left the fossil to be ravaged by the icy winds and rain.

Scientists say the developing El Nino could peak around November and December. The build-up of ocean heat could intensify global warming and extreme weather worldwide.

In one of the first studies of its kind, scientists have claimed that the organisms living inside the gut of psychopaths may be the drivers of their peculiar behaviour. The research team has claimed that they have discovered a link between the specific balance of microflora in the gut and psychopathic behaviour.

Food insecurity remains a daily reality for more than 300 million people across Africa, and the high cost of imported potassium fertiliser is part of the problem. Nearly all of the world's potash is mined in Canada, Russia and Germany, leaving African farmers reliant on expensive, distant supply chains and a fertiliser that leaches quickly from the soil.