In May 1883, Krakatoa awoke and started to rumble with volcanic activity, culminating in an intense eruption on August 27. It ...

C ommissioners of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have decided to allow black bear hunting for ...

A lmost all human languages follow Zipf's law of abbreviation – and it turns out, so do bird songs. This strange observation ...

There’s no point convincing people of the safety of a vaccine if they don’t even know what it protects against.

Antarctica has no native population or permanent residents, but it does have a transitory community of scientists and support ...

The Silverpit Crater was first described in 2002 by geophysicists Simon Stewart and Phil Allen. Their theory? That it was a ...

Kookaburras are known for their laugh, but they're one of several bird species that seem to be having a joke on simple-minded ...

The beleaguered bunnies are infected with cottontail rabbit papilloma virus – also called Shope papilloma virus – which is ...

To complicate the matter, no human remains were found in the sediment layer that contained the arrowheads, although the ...

The work indicates that the picture of extraterrestrial water being delivered to Earth is complex. Maybe not all comets, but ...

Fossilized teeth discovered in Ethiopia have revealed a new-to-science species of Australopithecus, a genus of early hominins that lived from the Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene ...

After the Maya people known as Lakandon-Ch'ol were forced out of their capital, Lakam Tun ("Great Rock") in 1586, they moved further into the jungle, creating the city of Sak-Bahlán, or the "land of ...