Stephen Hawking's black hole fame wasn't his only focus — he also laid out multiple existential threats. Here are five doomsday risks he talked about.

Three Asian small-clawed otter pups at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher are set to enter the public habitat pool for the first time.

Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic mammals appear bulkier than species living closer to the equator? There’s a ...

A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world's most widely cultivated "magic mushroom"—Psilocybe cubensis—may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the ...

The discovery of a new magic mushroom species in Africa is forcing mycologists to take another look at the famous psychedelic fungi’s evolutionary history. According to a study published today in the ...

A Trumpeter Swan is turning heads after it was spotted along the waterfront in Brooklyn for the first time ever recorded.

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Newborn chicks match “kiki” with spiky shapes and “bouba” with round ones, revealing the curious bouba-kiki effect in animals.

A dozen fun-loving and acrobatic dolphins turned the East River into their playground — leaving bewildered experts scratching their heads on what propelled the rare visit. The pod of short-beaked ...

The "exceptional" discovery was made by a group of Naturewatch volunteers from Somer Valley Rediscovered in England's southwest.

The incident was likely an opportunistic kill, with the fox preying on the small pup to possibly threaten the survival of the ...

The vibrant feathers of Amazonian parrots were both a fashion statement and a symbol of power for civilizations predating the ...