Three new 100-million-year-old species, including a pregnant fossil, were recently discovered in a most unusual location.

Mama finches preferentially protect their sons from blood-sucking mites by making them the last born.

After losing its tail and the key joint that moves it in up-and-down strokes, a dolphin may get a first-ever prosthesis.

Voice of Reason: The Maine Monster is an object lesson in the ways that people can "create" monsters because of misperceptions or logical fallacies.

Taller women have more of a growth protein linked to the rate of twins. A new study confirms the connection.

On the left is rainbow lorikeet race moluccanus from Granite Gorge. On the right is rainbow lorikeet race septentrionalis (or perhaps a cross of moluccanus and septentrionalis) a bit further north and inland, from Atherton.