Born on December 29, 1995, Flossie was officially recognized as the world’s oldest living cat by Guinness World Records (GWR) ...

Across time and cultures, facial mutilation has been a preferred form of punishment for various crimes, but why?

There’s no denying that the whole “one dog year = seven human years” idea is persistent, but when you stop and think about it ...

Historic fossil finds have pointed towards North America and Europe as the waters of origin for large size in lamniform ...

P. furnessi is considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List. Their current ...

The crack created by this activity could then have become something of a wind tunnel for sand-laden gusts sweeping across the ...

“The genetic data is fascinating,” said Anders Bergström, a lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences in the University ...

This, in turn, led to carbon starvation, as leaves became unable to capture the carbon dioxide they require for ...

I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru ...

M ice that can’t make vitamin C are protected against the parasitic disease schistosomiasis, and possibly similar parasites.

Siffre’s story started in 1939, in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast of France – but it wasn’t until 1962 that the events that ...

It seems like every time we try to estimate when the volcano might get there, the rate of inflation changes, making our ...