A rare, nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine helped me and my colleagues solve a decades-long debate about how the modern...

A new study has shed light on the mysterious craters that have appeared in Siberia’s permafrost over the past decade. These craters, first...

An animal has two names - a common name, which is used by humans in everyday conversation, and a scientific name, which is used by scientists and...

The fabled Nazca lines, a series of massive incisions on the desert floor depicting animals, plants, imaginary beings and geometric figures, have...

​In the wild, survival often requires creativity. Many animals have evolved the clever tactic of playing dead to escape predators. Here are 10...

One alleged assassin now sits in a detention centre. The other is dead, leaving a mystery behind.

New York plans to control its rat population with contraceptives instead of poison in initiative that ensures other animals don’t get harmed Read...

The two common disorders have been challenging quite a few scientists all over the world for years, until researchers at Israel's Haifa University...

Insider Brief Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, along with collaborators from Poland, Italy, Iceland, and Australia,...

Insider Brief Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, along with collaborators from Poland, Italy, Iceland, and Australia,...