Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in 1519 with no known children. Yet today, a bold effort is underway to ...

EcoGnomix I thought looked like a novel tactical strategy game but it just reiterates the saying looks can be deceiving. It ...

Each of the different islands of the Seychelles has its reason to visit, as Sarah Kingdom discovered on a recent visit.

Texas is the “battiest” state, home to 32 of the country’s 47 bat species — and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nowhere may ...

Today, the white ash trees that have supplied the bats’ wood are threatened by a metallic green, wood-boring beetle, one-half inch long and one-eighth inch wide, the emerald ash borer (EAB).

The NCAA regionals -- the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament -- always get things started with a bang and this year may ...

The bats won’t be used to actually play the game, DeSantis added, given that the wood isn’t the best for baseball bats.

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

The Sycamore Gap tree, which once stood proudly in a dip next to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, was chopped down in a shocking act of vandalism, causing uproar among locals. But what do we know ...

Made famous in 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the 150-year-old tree became something of a national treasure. That was until vandals struck in September 2023, savagely cutting the icon ...

The number of available jobs in the US unexpectedly increased in April, signaling a potential undercurrent of strength in the ...

The Tigers do things a little bit differently, and now they've combined that edge with a focused determination to surpass ...