Today is the turn of Redditor gothreepwood101, who asks "if I had a metal pole long enough to reach from the English coast to ...

One such species is Poltys idae, also known as the Dead Leaf Spider for obvious reasons. Native to Asia, its body is a ...

The new assessment totals 135,690 forest elephants, 16 percent more than the figure estimated in 2016, with an additional ...

While more confusing than the traditional "fire make hot" methods of cooking, you can get your head around how they work.

In recent years, a new danger has emerged in the Darién Gap. This lawless stretch of ungovernable jungle has become a hive of ...

A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest ...

T he coldest place on Earth is the East Antarctic Plateau. In this desolate desert, on July 23, 1983, air temperatures at Russia's Vostok Station plunged to around -89.2°C (-128.6°F), significantly ...

A total of 175 generations of painters followed the same set of rules when depicting the cosmos at Pecos River.

Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

According to those who do it, particularly in colder countries, it can promote better sleep. But what does the science say?

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows some closer resemblance to our later ancestors.

They found that many of the stresses and health problems we face in the modern age can be linked to the fact that our species spent the vast majority of its evolutionary history in natural ...