Long-tailed, neon green and among Costa Rica’s greatest wildlife wonders, the resplendent quetzal is an aptly named bird — ...

Each year around this time, an unfathomable parade of antelope travels across South Sudan. Now, after decades of war, the ...

A chance discovery confirmed what scientists long thought impossible. And the implications could stretch far beyond one ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

ISLAMABAD — While President Trump said the US has “defeated the Iranian navy,” pointing to waves of strikes that wiped out warships, submarines and key military sites since late February, Tehran was ...

Although much of the regular Iranian navy is destroyed, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps can still deploy small, speedy boats to disrupt shipping. By Neil MacFarquhar Iranian warships sunk by ...

The Orange tip butterfly is doing well, with numbers significantly higher than in the 1970s Increasingly warm and sunny weather over the last half century – driven in part by climate change – has ...

Meteorites billions of years old, alienlike worms, a blue whale’s massive jaw bones. These are just some of the millions of marvels that the Smithsonian Institution has stashed away in storage. Most ...

That’s a lot of cat videos. YouTube has been crowned the world’s largest media company, riding a years-long wave of user-generated videos — including millions of cat videos — to surge past even Walt ...

The global oil and gas sector continues to anchor the world economy, supplying more than 100 million barrels of fuel each day. From powering transportation networks to sustaining heavy industry, the ...