AMOC stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and it refers to the huge web of ocean currents moving through ...

On a temporary scale, the rings are coming back, but in the (much) longer term they’re probably a beautiful but transient ...

It’s part of our evolution, and it’s something we share with other mammals. It’s been well established that apes – our ...

New research shows that the Hobbits’ wisdom teeth were small – roughly similar in size to those of Neanderthals. This means ...

Rice’s whale is the only baleen whale species that lives year round in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the continental ...

A new study links the diet plan to “multiple aberrations of metabolic parameters”, which… doesn’t sound great.

S omehow, for reasons that are still unclear, the natural world gave rise to tiny mushrooms teeming with the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Even more astonishingly, the ability to produce this ...

The discovery resolves one major mystery in cosmology, deepens another and heralds the dawn of a new era for telescope ...

The lonely whale caught the world's imagination and inevitably it ended up as a Twitter parody account. Slighty less ...

Roughly the size of a small human, the Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest amphibians in the world. These blob-like beasts are sometimes called “living fossils” as ...

Seal nails, like humans’, are made of keratin, meaning that these animals are similarly vulnerable to conditions like fungal infections which can affect nails and the nail bed.

Largetooth sawfish look like a half-fish and half-chainsaw. Although their bodies are similar to a shark's, they are ...