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Today’s swine in China are traced back 8,000 years to the same region, revealing clues about animal husbandry and human migration.

Allergies in some places are worse than usual. Blame a late winter that delayed some trees from flowering, forcing them all into bloom at the same time.

Scientists working to save the endangered (and voracious) quoll came up with a clever solution: They trained it to hate the taste of toad so it can avoid getting poisoned.

Eating insects that contain high levels of trace metals can hinder growth for North American pitcher plants, a study finds. One expert says habitat loss is still the plants’ biggest threat.

Researchers studying enzymes that can process seaweed are astonished to find them in humans. They say the Japanese may have acquired the ability to digest nori because of their consumption of sushi.

Researchers say modifying chickens with a duck gene could protect them and reduce human exposure to dangerous influenza strains.

Researchers find that chemicals in smoke called karrikins trigger plant genes associated with light sensitivity. The findings could have implications for commercial farming and fire recovery.

It is the first such discovery in the Southern Hemisphere and raises questions about why the carnivores may have failed to become dominant predators below the equator.

Scientists aren’t sure how the 12 species spend weeks underwater without breaking the surface. They don’t have gills and they don’t hold their breath.

Feedback from Web surfers about what they feel during quakes is proving valuable to scientists and emergency responders.

In his book ‘After the Ice,’ Anderson writes of a world in which Arctic ice has permanently melted and polar bears don’t exist. He says the nightmare will likely come true in only decades.

The sediment beneath an Indiana lake is providing clues. One thing is clear: A meteor didn’t kill off the mammoths, mastodons and other large plant-eaters, as previously theorized.