Before microscopes and satellites, the unknown world was a canvas for myth. When ancient explorers discovered fossils, ...

There is a reason we call ourselves the Blue Planet.

As a parent of so many kids from so many walks of life, I am a huge fan of the comic strip Zits, by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman. One particular strip featured the 15-year old boy, Jeremy Duncan, in a ...

Some say ghosts continue to visit the Washington House in Two Rivers, the Maribel Caves Hotel and the Christmas Tree Ship.

They were so thick on the beaches of South Padre Island that one person described them as stepping stones. Squishy stepping ...

In one of his less scurrilous poems John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, lamented that he was “one of those strange prodigious creatures, Man,” and expressed his yearning to be “a dog, a monkey, or a bear, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Facetotectans are microscopic crustacean larvae that have never been seen as adults. Only the larval and juvenile phases of these creatures are known ...

There are some quite mysterious and strange creatures lurking in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. Watch the latest ...

As the planet warms, strange new animals are emerging in unexpected places. These creatures might look like they have come ...

As trading vessels sailed into Amsterdam in the first half of the 18th century, an apothecary named Albertus Seba could often be seen scurrying to meet the ailing crews. Seba was strange. Most ...

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...