Scientists found that plants combine light signals in ways that may distort their sense of direction, creating an effect ...

Someone — or something — struck a Neanderthal in the face with such force that a front tooth split down the middle. The blow ...

Commercial fishing has had a profound impact on the diversity and sustainability of fish populations. The fishing industry ...

A strict diet and supervised exercise helped more than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes achieve remission in just ...

Instead, the painful evidence was hidden in something much smaller: a stone roughly the size of a grape that had formed ...

Most insects survive an encounter with a predator by running, flying or hiding. The diabolical ironclad beetle, however, is ...

Jet lag seems like an entirely human problem. After all, we’re the ones hurtling across time zones in airplanes, only to ...

Scientists have found microscopic structures resembling fossilized red blood cells inside the bones of a small, meat-eating ...

On an Ethiopian plateau, a bull called Achille formed an unusual relationship with a male donkey named Patroclo. They were ...

In the final month of her life, an eight-year-old girl in the Inca Empire appears to have consumed alcohol while chewing coca ...

Rujm el-Hiri is a vast stone monument near the Sea of Galilee, which has long puzzled archaeologists. Often called the ...

Klaus Stiefel / Flickr. The mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus is a species of octopus that grows up to 60 cm (2 feet) in ...