Experiments involving dozens of European bird species — such as great tits, house sparrows and blackbirds — suggest the birds can distinguish human sex and react differently, but the reasons remain unclear. The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava), a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae. Image credit: Sci.News. “When an animal faces a potential…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived in Kenya on their way to their native forests after years in the care of a zoo in the Czech Republic. Bongos, rare antelopes known for their striking stripes, have been declared critically endangered due to poaching and diseases. There are less than 100 mountain…
The seas around Antarctica might begin releasing CO2 Nigel Killeen/Getty Images Global warming caused by humanity’s carbon emissions has been slowing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a system of currents including the Gulf Stream that warms Europe. If the AMOC collapsed entirely, it could release massive amounts of carbon from the deep Southern Ocean…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Vice President JD Vance will visit Hungary next week, where he will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán days ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections. The vice president and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, will visit Budapest from April 7 to 8, according to…
Belgium’s Constitutional Court has rejected a Netflix appeal opposing local production investment obligations in the country’s French-Speaking Wallonia-Brussels region. Netflix filed the appeal last summer in response to a 2024 decision by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) to oblige streamers operating in the region to invest up to 9.5% of their turnover in the territory in…
Scientists have extracted and analyzed DNA from 216 canid remains, including 181 from Paleolithic and Mesolithic Europe. The oldest data that they recovered are from a 14,200-year-old dog from the Kesslerloch site in Switzerland. Their results suggest that domesticated dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) predate farming and share deep ancestry with wolves (Canis lupus) from Eurasia,…
A researcher holds a 14,300 year-old dog jawbone found at Gough’s Cave in the United Kingdom, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in London. Mustakim Hasnath/AP This July 2019 image provided by the Cantonal Archaeological Service of Schaffhausen shows an ancient dog jawbone that was found in the Kesserloch cave in Switzerland. (Ivan Ivic/Cantonal Archaeological Service…
Examining 31 ancient societies across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, researchers found that democratic systems were more widespread than once believed — and not determined by population size or geography. The Acropolis at Athens by Leo von Klenze. The word ‘democracy’ was, of course, invented by the Greeks — demokratia meant simply that people (demos)…
