It started in April when a spate of media reports claimed that thousands of the amphibians had died in Hamburg's Altona ...

As human activities encroach more and more into otter habitat, it's worth remembering that although attacks are very rare, these animals are large predators that will fight to defend their territory.

The Asteroid Belt doesn’t look like asteroid fields in movies, filled with rocks constantly hitting each other. Space is big, ...

Exchanged a $20 Virginia note; received a $100 Tennessee note; went back to Kentucky; forced to exchange the Tennessee note for $88 of Kentucky money – an actual experience in 1840.

This range of presentations implies something rather intriguing: that each order of animals that lost the ghrelin gene did so ...

The object is known as C/2026 A1 (MAPS), discovered extremely recently on January 20 by a group of French amateur astronomers ...

Chiolerio and co-authors speculated that the trees might have been responding to gravitational influences, rather than loss ...

Chester Zoo, in the UK, has announced that it has received scientific confirmation that an “extinct” snail has been saved ...

"I strained my eyes and peered intently into the darkness. No, there could be no mistake. I could definitely see land." ...

The raw data was captured during the Northern Territory Government’s Bonney Well Survey. A plane, armed with a sophisticated ...

When faced with a physical challenge, studies have found, swearing improves performance. New research offers an explanation ...

The meaning is clear: “snake oil” is a label given to something – particularly medicine of some kind – that promises easy and effective results, but in fact provides no such thing. To sell snake oil, ...