While nonhuman animals (animals) have played a large role in many aspects of human history, most traditional historical works either give them passing coverage or ignore them totally. 1 That is among ...

A chunky, four-legged creature the size of a football has forced a reconsideration of one of evolution’s more practical questions: when did land animals first develop a taste for plants. The answer, ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Ancient, life-size rock carvings depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals have been unearthed in the Saudi Arabian desert, with researchers dating the remarkable artworks back approximately ...

NH copy Purchased with funds gifted by Eva and Ira Pell in support of the study of biodiversity at the Smithsonian. Prologue: The carnal immanence of political realism - realism, materiality, and ...