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?

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 ...

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

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

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 ...

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

Their adventures took them vast distances, regularly traveling over 50 kilometers (31 miles) from their home to the river ...

A wild Amur tigress has been filmed with five cubs in tow in the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park. The ...

Hot on the heels of 55 Cancri e, the JWST has found even more convincing evidence for a rocky world with a thick atmosphere, ...