A dozen critically endangered mountain pygmy possums have been successfully bred at an Australian sanctuary. Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria has welcomed the critters, whose numbers have ...

Scientists in Taiwan examined the brooding behavior and hatching patterns of bird-like but flightless oviraptors.

The 85-year-old victim was beaten around the head and stabbed in the chest by an intruder at her home in the UK in 1982.

A study found that rather than mixing at random, sharks have “active social preferences” and choose their social partners.

Social prescribing may sound like a wellness buzzword, but the economic stakes are real. Social isolation among older adults is associated with $6.7 billion in excess Medicare spending annually, while ...

Closing your eyes might not help you hear better after all, according to new research. People with their eyes shut struggled to hear faint sounds in noisy environments audible to open-eyed ...

A sloth family is seen safely recovering after being rescued from trafficking. The male, mother sloth and her baby were recently intercepted and brought to safety at the International Animal Rescue ...

Incredible scenes saw the rescue of a lost snowmobile driver stranded on ice. A US Coast Guard (USCG) ship had to assist when blizzard conditions meant a helicopter rescue was too risky. The cutter ...

A new study has revealed great white sharks secretly spend their winters in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists tracked 92 sharks ...

Playing virtual reality games can make you a kinder person, according to new research. They increase a player’s desire to help others, say scientists. Researchers found that VR games may increase a ...

Luxury train hopping,’ ‘ancestry travel’ and ‘period drama set-jetting’ may dominate social feeds, but many Americans are approaching viral vacation trends with caution. A new survey of 2,000 American ...

The discovery could open up new ways for treating diseases such as MS by leveraging molecules that are already present in the ...