Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

It was a dramatic moment in a federal courtroom in Chicago Friday when Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the son of convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, pleaded guilty to charges of drug ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s ...

Are Black Rat Snakes a Threat to Humans? Because of their dark appearance and size, many humans panic when seeing a black rat snake and, unfortunately, kill the animal.

A team of scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel method to more accurately quantify greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale ...

The Northern rainfall onset outlook shows the likelihood of an early or late wet-season start across northern Australia. Forecasts are issued in July, August and September each year. The forecasts use ...

A Far North couple was left with only the clothes on their back after a fire destroyed their home and killed their two pet cats. Kevin Wheller had been in ...

The Northern Palawan tree squirrel (Sundasciurus juvencus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Queen Mary second Flowerhead is set to move up to six furlongs for her next start after giving rookie handler Charlie Clover a day to remember at Royal Ascot.