Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

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From dodos to dugongs, mythical birds to magical horses, these 15 weirdest national animals from around the world truly let ...

After heavy rain, a splashing sound coming from the toilet in the middle of the night is the stuff nightmares are made of, ...

Winter isn't typically seen as a time of beauty, as plants die or hibernate until spring. However, this one tree stays ...

A howling blizzard 134 years ago killed an estimated 230 people, many of them children — and 40 to 100 of those deaths ...