After centuries of anecdotal accounts, an app and enthusiastic citizen scientists finally give us some answers on how birds ...

While exploring the seafloor, the team spotted something eerie swimming in the distance. As the camera moved closer, the ...

The fossil cave system in Richards Spur, Oklahoma, is believed to be home to some of the oldest stalagmites in the world.

Gastric-brooding frogs incubate their eggs in their stomachs, as the name suggests. Doing so involves neutralizing the acid ...

YouTuber Steve Mould found a weird effect with chains. It needed testing in space, and that's where astronaut Don Pettit ...

The first-ever evidence-based dietary guidance for adults experiencing chronic constipation has just been released, and you ...

We thought hippos went extinct in Central Europe around 115,000 years ago, but new fossil finds tell a different story.

Given this stark lack of sightings, some organizations had already declared the bird extinct in recent years, but this is the ...

A ll manner of deep ocean creatures live beneath the waves, from funky disco worms to octopuses and just about every manner of tentacled creature you can think of. Off the coast of Uruguay, a deep-sea ...

“The Copernican principle is a cornerstone of most of astronomy, it is assumed without question, and plays an important role in many statistical tests for the viability of cosmological models,” Albert ...

O n a small stretch of land near the Kenya-Somalia border lives the world’s rarest antelope, a curious-looking, “four-eyed” animal called the hirola that once roamed the region’s grasslands in the ...

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a spherical distribution. Elliptical galaxies, being the product of galactic ...