A Blue Moon can be defined as a monthly one (the second full Moon in a calendar month) or a seasonal one (the third full Moon in a season). Similarly, you can have a monthly Black Moon, happening ...

At first glance, the Iberian ribbed newt’s defense might seem fairly standard fodder for an amphibian; like several species ...

It’s just as well conditions like this are not common, or 18th-century geologists might have never made sense of Earth's ...

Winter-run Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) are a distinct population found in California’s Sacramento River System. Unlike others, they migrate upstream during the cold winter months and ...

S ometimes, genetics likes to throw a bit of a curveball when it comes to coloration of animals. These quirks can tip the scales in favor of all white or all black fur, feathers, or even skin and can ...

Over 20 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope looked at a little patch of sky for days, with this methodical approach ...

A giant marine reptile that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Germany. Retrieved from the world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, the newly named Plesionectes longicollum ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. Laura is an editor and staff writer ...

D ormant cancer cells in the lung could be reactivated after a bout of COVID-19 or flu, according to new research. The ...

Mauna Loa may hold the record of the largest active volcano, but it turns out it’s not the biggest overall – not by a long ...

“Every species on the planet self-medicates in some way or another,” Michael Huffman, a primatologist now at the Institute of ...