Your backpacking-through-Europe days may be over, but there is no reason to down-shift your wanderlust if you’re over 50.

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Gulf Stream orphans is a term for tropical fish who took a journey far from home via the Gulf Stream and ended up in northern ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

After lowering themselves into a “vertical cave” in Indonesia, a team of cavers paused at a shallow pool. Floating inside was an odd-looking creature with skin where its eyes should be. They didn’t ...

Fish is a low-calorie, high-protein food packed with nutrients and ninety percent of Americans don't eat enough.

Harvard biologist Mandë Holford studies venomous snails and other toxic creatures to unlock new medications that may one day ...