Patrick Pester

Nature must think willies are funny, too.

The "law of increasing functional information" says that complex systems in nature evolve to become more complex.

Killer whales are surprisingly gentle in the wild when interacting with humans — though it's sometimes a different story with orcas in captivity.

The center of Earth lies around 4,000 miles beneath our feet — but what lies beneath the outer crust and the inner core?

Scientists have discovered flowering plants were largely unscathed by the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago, allowing them to take advantage of the new, dinosaur-free planet.

Scientists have calculated the average distance between stars, but there's much more to star distribution than meets the eye.

Mayflies are famous for cramming an entire life into a single day, but that's not strictly true.

The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption may have contributed to this year's heat, but it's not causing climate change.

A visitor attraction in Scotland is enlisting the help of volunteers to search for Nessie, but it's unlikely to yield a monster discovery.

The newfound vampyromorph species was equipped with defensive features not previously seen in the fossil record — and it's related to modern-day vampire squid.

The alleged theft of donated body parts from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary is revealing a national network of human remains dealers.

Noah's flood is a story much older than the Bible, and researchers are still learning about its roots.

Wales' new "Castle Bank" fossil site could be among the world's most important deposits.

Kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials are even weirder than we give them credit for.

26-year-old Andrea Papi was jogging on a woodland path when he was attacked and killed by a bear with three cubs.

Researchers have been debating the Tully monster's evolution since the creature was discovered in the 1950s.

There's a huge difference between sending humans to Mars and colonizing worlds outside our solar system.

The real-life origins of a once-mythological wildcat called the "cat-fox" are finally coming to light thanks to recent genetics research.

Researchers have recorded an orca swimming with a pilot whale calf in a possible interspecies adoption, but how the two came together is a mystery.

Cruise liner guests encountered giant phantom jellyfish off the coast of Antarctica while diving in submersibles, a new study finds.