Analysis: NZ and Cooks taxpayers could pick up most of the tab to buy a new $5m ferry from China, writes Jonathan Milne ...

With more time, the fish may learn to pay attention to more subtle human features, such as hands or hair. According to the ...

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field season, local fish would follow them and steal food intended as experimental ...

Amid reports of new atrocities by their troops in Sudan, leaders of the Rapid Support Forces were cheered at an elaborate ...

Soon after, the finger-size creatures, which owe their luminescence to a chemical reaction similar to the one seen in ...

Despite its whimsical name, Quipu (pronounced “kee-poo”) is the largest confirmed superstructure in the universe to date in ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet.

ROME, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Italian finance police seized a record 788 kg of cocaine in a large-scale anti-drug operation on Tuesday, marking one of the largest drug hauls ever intercepted by the ...

Owning exotic and rare animals as pets is a status symbol in India. This has led to a supply-chain spread across many ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, greys and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

A coalition of local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service Tuesday, Feb. 18 for its approval of the ...