These gentle giants have poor eyesight and may not be able to see fishnets and boats with which they have fatal encounters.

Did you know goldfish can learn to drive cars? Have you heard bumblebees can learn to pull on a string? Would you believe ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Even when people weren’t sure where on the screen they had seen the word before but recognized the word as familiar, their ...

Researchers have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to 'sense' and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans do.

Discover the remarkable limits of human visual perception and the maximum distances our eyes can discern.

For example, little dogs such as Pomeranians, shih tzus and chihuahuas have a 10 per cent chance of dying from cancer while ...

The insects and their larvae, which feed on the foliage of potatoes and other plants, can spread quickly and wipe out crops, the TV presenter said.

In a desperate bid to stop the savage beating, Sandra stabbed Travis in the back with a carving knife and battered him over ...

Indianapolis Prize goes to conservationist and explorer Lily-Arison René de Roland. It comes with a $250,000 grant.

Researcher works with universities of California-Davis, Illinois, Wisconsin and others to engineer and test a novel microsphere-hydrogel delivery for medicine, requiring fewer injections, to treat a c ...

Despite what you may think, dogs are excellent communicators. They typically don’t bite out of the blue (unless you’ve ...