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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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