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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Antarctica is known for being a rather inhospitable place, what with its extreme cold, violent winds, and low levels of water – it is technically a desert. Much of continent also sits at high altitude ...

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

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

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

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