Safely stored in a dark vault in London, the dried specimens of Carl Linnaeus's 18th-century herbarium have been revealed in ...

His nursery, known for its thousands of camellias and azaleas, was severely damaged in last year’s fires, and now Nuccio is ...

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

Jews have been used as the scapegoats of societies throughout history. Blaming all Jews for allegedly killing Jesus of ...

New chemical analysis of quartz microliths from South Africa confirms that humans were skilled with poison long ago.

Every year, scientists add thousands of new names to the great book of life. This momentum was initiated by the work of ...

Researchers have identified traces of plant poison from the South African plant gifbol on Stone Age arrowheads – the oldest ...

Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear on our pages. This year, tidbits about plastic recycling, whale sharks and crab Rangoon enlightened and ...

A living database reveals why the global count of mammal species keeps changing - and why accurate naming matters for ...