Firefighters, the clergy and others with service jobs are more satisfied with their work and overall are happier than those in other professions, according to results from a national survey.

Tiny relatives of the spider were long ago stripped by evolution for the need to have sex. Now they're doing it again anyway.

Green thumb or not, most of us have at least one houseplant because it links us back to nature, a new study claims.

The church may lie beneath a small town in Newfoundland. But a dead historian's notes were destroyed at her request, so no one is sure.

Frogs dealing with a deadly fungus face a new challenge from climate change as it threatens what were thought to be protected habitats.

The golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is endemic to southwestern China along the Tibetan plateau.