A hippo’s bite can crush a watermelon and a person, but its feces are even deadlier in the long run. Scientists have found ...

The blue whale pushes the limits of what life can achieve. Powered by a heart that beats slowly but moves gallons of blood with each pulse, it thrives by consuming millions of krill each day. This ...

"This is the first documented sighting of a whale shark along Israel's Mediterranean coast, and only the third confirmed ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Tiwai Island, newly inscribed as Sierra Leone’s first Unesco World Heritage site, is home to rare wildlife and a remarkable ...

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A snow leopard named Juno at the Tanganyika Wildlife Park is making everybody smile as she plays with a giant pumpkin, which ...

In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...

The American Museum of Natural History has found a more appropriate space for Apex, a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton lent ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --A 47-year-old Chinese national has pleaded guilty in Britain to a multi-billion-dollar Bitcoin scheme, according to Metropolitan Police, which said it has made what is possibly the ...

Finding hope amid anger and division reminds us that everyday acts of care and kindness far outweigh the cruelty that ...

Zijin Gold International Co. jumped in its Hong Kong trading debut after the international unit of China’s biggest miner raised $3.2 billion in the world’s largest initial public offering since May.