The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we knew it just a few weeks ago.  Millions of people worldwide are now under mandatory or voluntary lockdowns.  All public attractions,...

Over the years, researchers have unearthed fossils of many of the estimated 2,468 dinosaur species  that roamed Earth during the Mesozoic era, which spanned from between 252 mil...

 With schools and businesses closed and many cities and towns under mandatory shelter-in-place orders, the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19,  has drastically changed lives globall...

For most birds, nest-building entails creating a bowl-shaped receptacle of twigs and dry leaves. However, don't tell that to the common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius). The tin...

Texas, the biggest of the contiguous US states, prides itself on being larger than life.  Everything, from hairstyles to boot heels to food portions to mascots to convenience st...

Saint Patrick's Day, which is celebrated annually on March 17, is a global favorite. And rightfully so, given the holiday's fun traditions, which include pinching people not wea...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the COVID-19 coronavirus global emergency is now a pandemic. The UN health agency urged countries worldwide...

Though many single-celled lifeforms have evolved to survive without oxygen, multicellular organisms have always been believed to need it to live. Now, scientists in Tel Aviv, Is...

Celebrated annually on March 14, Pi ("π”) Day is a universal favorite with students and teachers. Though the American holiday, which honors the numerical constant representing t...

Paleontologists have long determined that modern-day birds evolved from smaller members of the two-legged, meat-eating theropods, such as velociraptors. However, for many years,...