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 ...

A man born with Usher syndrome type 1b, a rare genetic disease that causes congenital deafness and progressive blindness, has ...

Previous studies have identified three waves of gene flow between the two human species, with the first interbreeding event taking place some 250,000 to 200,000 years ago. A second hook-up then ...

Much like the Wallace Line, this mysterious deep-sea divide in the Atlantic shows us that the ocean is not a continuous ...

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 ...