Humans inherited pubic lice, aka crabs, from gorillas roughly three million years ago. But it does not mean there was any monkey business involved.

The distinction between birds and the dinosaurs from which they evolved is getting even murkier as scientists reported this week that both groups had short genomes, or complete DNA sequences.

A tactfully sunken ship might have blocked Napoleon from entering a Middle Eastern port, and sent him sailing home to France.

A male orb-web spider leaves behind a post-coital parting gift that helps to ensure that subsequent offspring are his?the tip of his genitals ? in the females' sexual orifice.

The giant palm salamander of Central America shoots out its tongue with more instantaneous power than any known muscle in the animal kingdom.

In the bayous of eastern Arkansas, amidst ancient trees both living and dead that provide nourishment to creatures of the swamp, hangs a high-tech sentinel patiently waiting to capture video of an elusive bird once thought to be extinct.