From snails to skunks, squirrels to cicadas, most of our neighbors are quiet and seldom interact with us, but they play ...

Across the globe, stunned locals have captured footage of animals born with extra heads, legs, eyes, and even tentacle-like ...

Most of us have been taught to have a healthy amount of skepticism. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And you can’t believe everything you read online! But sometimes, reality ...

A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had ...

A new brain teaser has left people scratching their heads. The image leaves even the most observant puzzle-solvers racing against the clock to find a hidden squirrel's tail among a flock of chickens.

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed into law a measure that would allow doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives after the controversial bill barely cleared the Senate during ...

Almost two years ago, I visited lifelong Staten Islander Brian Moffett at a specialized care facility in Manhattan. Brian had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Scotland is home to around 80% of the UK's red squirrels. Although native to the UK, the red squirrel population has been under threat since non-native grey squirrels were brought here around 150 ...

Back in 2009, red squirrels were thin on the ground in Aberdeen - instead grey squirrels were a common sight in the city's trees and parks. Today the red squirrel population is thriving thanks to the ...

What do critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy 14 and the renegades of funk, Rage Against the Machine, have in common? Probably not much before this week, but now they both contain a shared ingredient ...

Lai Hang had four months to live and no time to waste. On the day in 2015 when she heard her cancer prognosis, she filled out the paperwork and began the 10-day waiting period to buy a handgun. Then ...