In 2016, the world was aghast at the shooting of Harambe, a lovable and peaceful 400-pound adult male gorilla. His death was tragic, but his life was eventful.
Dolly the sheep was known around the world in the late 1990s as the first mammal to be successfully cloned. Here's what happened to Dolly and her clones.
Spider webs, the bane of flying insects, are marvels of natural engineering. Simple yet complex, there's much more to these silken webs than meets the eye.
Creating and manipulating fire is commonly seen as a uniquely human skill. In Australia, firehawks have been making use of fire for far longer than us.
In 1978, NASA recruited its first female astronauts, a full 20 years after the agency was first established. The six women have many astonishing achievements.
About 717 to 661 million years ago Earth entered the "Sturtian Snowball Earth event." Recent studies have shed light on what this time was really like.
There was a four-year chimp war in Gombe resulting in brutal assaults that made even Jane Goodall question her conclusions about our closest genetic relatives.
Some studies have examined whether the time of year you're born can affect your longevity. So what do the results say? Do people born in fall live longer?
Jimmy Buffett was known for his fanbase of Parrot Heads and association with the tropical lifestyle - but a crustacean species was also named after him in 2023.
NASA's James Webb Telescope is producing never before seen images from deep space, including a mysterious question mark shape. Here's what it tells us.
Seeing a rainbow in the sky never gets old, and a double rainbow is even more lovely to witness, but lesser reported is a triple rainbow. Can that even happen?
Much of what you think you know about the Ice Age is wrong. Pop culture has given us some pretty strange ideas, but the truth might be even more extraordinary.
Modern scientific research into cannabis is yielding some thought-provoking and bizarre stuff. Here are weird marijuana facts you probably didn't know.
Most of these things have a genetic component, a few can be learned, and all of them are pretty rare, so if your body can do one, consider yourself special.