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In this undated photo released on May 21, 2020 by Mexico&#039;s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), an archaeologist works at the site where bones of about 60 mammoths were discovered at the old Santa Lucia military airbase just north of Mexico City. Institute archaeologist Pedro Sanchez Nava said the giant herbivores had probably just got stuck in the mud of an ancient lake, once known as Xaltocan and now disappeared.

In Mexico City, experts find bones of dozens of mammoths

In this undated photo released on May 21, 2020 by Mexico&#039;s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), an archaeologist works at the site where bones of about 60 mammoths were discovered at the old Santa Lucia military airbase just north of Mexico City. Institute archaeologist Pedro Sanchez Nava said the giant herbivores had probably just got stuck in the mud of an ancient lake, once known as Xaltocan and now disappeared.

May 22, 2020, 12:49pm Life

Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built ‘traps’ where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year. Read story

FILE - In this April 26, 2020, file photo, empty lanes of the 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway that leads to downtown Los Angeles is seen during the coronavirus outbreak in Los Angeles, Calif. The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17 percent at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found. But with life and heat-trapping gas levels inching back toward normal, the brief pollution break will likely be &quot;a drop in the ocean&quot; when it comes to climate change, scientists said.(AP Photo/Mark J.

Study: World carbon pollution falls 17 percent during pandemic peak

FILE - In this April 26, 2020, file photo, empty lanes of the 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway that leads to downtown Los Angeles is seen during the coronavirus outbreak in Los Angeles, Calif. The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17 percent at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found. But with life and heat-trapping gas levels inching back toward normal, the brief pollution break will likely be &quot;a drop in the ocean&quot; when it comes to climate change, scientists said.(AP Photo/Mark J.

May 19, 2020, 11:52am Latest News

The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17 percent at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found. Read story

A sea lion sits May 2 outside a hotel that is closed because of the new coronavirus pandemic, in San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Pandemic upends life on isolated Galapagos

A sea lion sits May 2 outside a hotel that is closed because of the new coronavirus pandemic, in San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

May 19, 2020, 6:04am Life

Before the coronavirus, sudden life-threatening ailments among tourists, fishermen and others on the Galapagos Islands were considered so rare that hospitals didn’t have a single intensive care unit bed. Read story

Closeup macro of a Japanese giant hornet or "murder hornet" because of the way they attack honey bees, the largest species of hornet in the world.

Hunts for ‘murder hornets’ snare needed bees

Closeup macro of a Japanese giant hornet or "murder hornet" because of the way they attack honey bees, the largest species of hornet in the world.

May 19, 2020, 6:03am Life

People, get a grip. Yes, the Asian giant hornet, now famously known as the “murder hornet,” is one huge scary wasp, capable of decimating an entire colony of honeybees and savagely stinging and possibly killing humans who get in their way. Read story

A macro XRF scanner is used Feb. 26 to study in minute detail the surface of Johannes Vermeer&#039;s 17th century masterpiece &quot;Girl With a Pearl Earring,&quot; at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands.

Up-close look at Vermeer’s ‘Girl’

A macro XRF scanner is used Feb. 26 to study in minute detail the surface of Johannes Vermeer&#039;s 17th century masterpiece &quot;Girl With a Pearl Earring,&quot; at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands.

May 12, 2020, 6:06am Life

Researchers using a battery of modern imaging techniques have gotten under the skin of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” but tests haven’t answered the key question about the world famous painting’s enigmatic subject. Read story

A tiger shark navigates undersea. One particular 10-foot tiger shark studied by scientists with a satellite tracker was found to make a 4,000-mile transoceanic journey from Africa.

Tiger shark makes 4,000-mile trek across ocean

A tiger shark navigates undersea. One particular 10-foot tiger shark studied by scientists with a satellite tracker was found to make a 4,000-mile transoceanic journey from Africa.

May 12, 2020, 6:05am Life

A 10-foot tiger shark fitted with a satellite tracker has stunned researchers by proving the species is capable of crossing entire oceans. Read story

In this artist rendering made available by NASA, depicts a helicopter that will be deployed in Mars later this summer. Vanessa Rupani, an Alabama high school student, won a contest to name the 4-pound solar-powered helicopter. Ingenuity, was the winning name that Rupani submitted from 28,000 names submitted in NASA&#039;s &quot;Name the Rover&quot; essay contest for K-12 students in the U.S.

Alabama high-schooler names 1st Mars helicopter

In this artist rendering made available by NASA, depicts a helicopter that will be deployed in Mars later this summer. Vanessa Rupani, an Alabama high school student, won a contest to name the 4-pound solar-powered helicopter. Ingenuity, was the winning name that Rupani submitted from 28,000 names submitted in NASA&#039;s &quot;Name the Rover&quot; essay contest for K-12 students in the U.S.

May 5, 2020, 6:04am Life

An Alabama high school student named NASA’s first Mars helicopter that will be deployed to the red planet later this summer. Read story

This undated photo provided by Michael Thomas in April 2020 shows a clouded sulphur butterfly in Cromwell, Conn. In an April 2020 interview, Ann Swengel, a citizen scientist tracking butterflies for more than 30 years, recalled that a few decades ago she would drive around Wisconsin &quot;look out in a field and you&#039;d see all these Sulphur butterflies around.

Earth’s insect population shrinking

This undated photo provided by Michael Thomas in April 2020 shows a clouded sulphur butterfly in Cromwell, Conn. In an April 2020 interview, Ann Swengel, a citizen scientist tracking butterflies for more than 30 years, recalled that a few decades ago she would drive around Wisconsin &quot;look out in a field and you&#039;d see all these Sulphur butterflies around.

April 28, 2020, 6:05am Life

The world has lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years, according to researchers whose big picture study of global bug decline paints a disturbing but more nuanced problem than earlier research. Read story

Smoke blob from Australian fires circling around globe

April 28, 2020, 6:02am Life

Smoke from the bush fires that ravaged Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 continues to circle the globe almost four months after it was formed, scientists have found. Read story

Apples collected by amateur botanists David Benscoter and EJ Brandt of the Lost Apple Project, rest on the ground in an orchard at an abandoned homestead near Genesee, Idaho, in October.

Apple sleuthing in Northwest bears fruit

Apples collected by amateur botanists David Benscoter and EJ Brandt of the Lost Apple Project, rest on the ground in an orchard at an abandoned homestead near Genesee, Idaho, in October.

April 21, 2020, 6:05am Food

A team of retirees that scours the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct — the largest number ever unearthed in a single season by the nonprofit Lost Apple Project. Read story