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Brown bears on an Alaskan archipelago are the descendants of an ancient polar bear population rather than being the ancestors of modern polar bears, a new study has found.

Pee Pants - designed to allow people in high-pressure jobs to relieve themselves when they can’t take a bathroom break - is being tested out by female mushers during the ongoing Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska.

A NASA-funded study has found that temperature and vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes now increasingly resembles those lusher latitudes to the south.

Globally it has been observed that lizards with viviparous reproduction (retention of embryos within the mother's body) are being threatened by changing weather patterns.

Research by European-funded scientists has shown that 20 percent of the Canadian Arctic glaciers may have disappeared by the end of this century, which would amount to an additional sea level rise of 3.5cm.

Tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass plants and plant material - in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the twenty-first century than may previously have been thought, a study has suggested.

And a study has found that handedness in marsupials is dependent on gender i.e. males are right-handed and females preferred using their left hands.

The major habitats of aquatic life in the Ganga, Yamuna and Ghagra rivers in Uttar Pradesh are critically degrading, a survey by the state Forest Department and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) India has revealed.

A mystery man dressed as Batman demonstrated the same crime-fighting skills as the caped crusader when he handed over a suspect wanted for burglary in Britain.

Almost 3,000 great apes are killed or captured in the wild each year because of rampant illegal trade, according to a new UN report released Monday that voiced fears for their survival.

Scientists have found what they believe to be a planet-in-the-making that is still gathering material left over from the formation of its parent star.

Scientists have found that the heartof King Richard I, who ruled England in the 12th-Century, was preserved using mercury, mint and frankincense, among other sweet-smelling plants.

New scans of a mysterious fossil has suggested that an ancient sea predator had a spiraling whorl of teeth that acted as a lethal slicing tool.

It is not just honey bees that are in trouble. The fuzzy American bumblebee seems to be disappearing in the Midwest. Two new studies in Thursday's journal Science conclude that wild bees, like the American bumblebee...

Hollow neck bones made it possible for the largest of all dinosaurs to evolve necks longer than any other creature that has ever lived, researchers have suggested. They said sauropods, the plant-eating dinosaurs...