I hear the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live is on its way to starting in Britain, where I now live. I wish them luck, because the UK is definitely funnier than the United States.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with backbones to join them. But for tens ...

Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

I placed a camera trap in a quiet forest area and let it run without checking it. When I finally reviewed the footage, I was ...

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LAKELAND - While beavers are famed for their industry and are an integral part of wetlands, they’re also commonly viewed as pests by ranchers, road builders, and industries impacted by their perpetual ...

It’s a gray, mid-January day. Uncanny warmth and rain melted away any indication of snow or wintry merriment. Lake Forest Gardens’ gravel lot is empty for the first time since late November. Nearby, ...

It’s the time of year when discarded evergreens pile up at transfer stations across New Hampshire. But in Durham, one town’s trash is another goat’s treasure. Julie Kelley, a member of the town’s ...