One death has been reported so far from the storm. Gordon's winds were just below hurricane-force last night when it made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border.
For the first time, biologists have documented dueling parasites in South Florida. When love vines do battle with gall wasps, the result is wasp mummies.
An anomaly is something that deviates from what's standard, or expected. This global warming visualization - created by Antti Lipponen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute - shows yearly temperature anomalies by country.
What you're smelling is petrichor – a pleasant, earthy scent that accompanies a storm's first raindrops. A weather expert explains where it comes from.
Besides humans, only 4 species are known to experience menopause, and they're all whales – belugas, narwhals, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales.
Interbreeding between Burmese and Indian pythons in South Florida might have resulted in what geneticists call "hybrid vigor." One result is that the snakes seem to have adapted to both swamps and high, dry ground.
“What breed is he? is often the first question people ask about a dog, but the answer is often terribly inaccurate,” said the author of a new genetic study of shelter dogs.
Death is inevitable for individuals and also for species. With help from the fossil record, paleontologists are piecing together what might make one creature more vulnerable than another.