To appreciate beauty one has to move in silence and if you break this cardinal rule in Sigiriya, you might just become a victim of wasp attack! Over 250 tourists have been attacked by a colony of wasps at a fifth-century rock fortress in Sri Lanka...

Almost coming alive to grasp for air through the smoke, a winged statue of victory stands surrounded by wildfires that nearly destroyed the site of the ancient Olympic Games in southwestern Greece. Ancient Olympia seems to have weathered time as...

Eighty-nine new fires continue to rage destruction churning everything to white ash, even as firefighters and water-bearing planes have begun arriving from other European nations. These extensive Greek fires, which have resulted in a national alert,...

Can you imagine having a falcon’s huge talons and a bone-crushing grip as a hunting aid? The land of the Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan has an age-old relationship with these majestic and powerful predators. The Kyrgyz greatly revere the golden...

Mother - the creator and nurturer: it is through her that one witnesses the miracle of life. Are you healthy enough to be one? because obesity, a price some of us pay for modern society’s opulence, has become a worrisome cause that is affecting...

When I saw its picture, this rare and unusual animal fascinated me. A relative of a manatee even dubbed a mermaid, its remnant population is threatened by environmental degradation and occasional entanglement mortality in fishing nets, but now the...

This viperfish is a real-life predator that lurks in one of the world’s most remote locations. Deep depths of the ocean remain an elusive mystery, as technology advances man is trying to unravel it. In the same effort, a diving robot has...

This discovery sure might revolutionize human evolution research! Fossil teeth found of a probable ancestor of living African great apes, might represent a previously unknown species of the apes that lived in Africa ten million years ago. Africa was...

Savannas, a main terrestrial biome comprises of a dynamic mix of trees and grasses that encompasses open woodlands and grassland. Savannas are frequently seen as a transitional zone, between forest regions and desert regions and are also much...

Would you have thought that a furry, gentle squirrel could stand its ground and fight a deadly, rattling killer snake? It very much does; in fact, it takes the supposedly suicidal stance of sand kicking, attacking and waving its tail to the snakes...