Science isn’t always serious. Sometimes researchers ask questions that seem silly at first, like why toast lands butter-side down or how ducks stay dry. But these quirky experiments often lead to ...

Humans are having a devastating effect on biodiversity, but the impacts might be worse than we thought. New research has found that undescribed species of beetles were much more sensitive to habitat ...

Paleontologists sifted through thousands of 3 to 3.7 million year-old fossils in New Zealand, which also included great white shark teeth and the spine of an extinct sawshark. By Laura Baisas ...