The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if you mated with an alien.

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

The invasive tick species can reproduce without mating, allowing for rapid population growth. Local agricultural officials ...

A pregnant naked mole rat can shut down reproduction across her entire colony using a single chemical compound, and ...

Statistically, you're much more likely to die in your car on the way to Disney World than you are in an alligator's jaws in Florida.

Lovebirds are unusual not just because of their shameless PDA, but because they choose one mate for life. While more than 90 ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily on the face. In fact, humans are the only habitat for ...

Karrie Gulmi drove an hour from her home in Pittsfield to pick up Gabagool in Springfield — not Italian cured pork, but a cat ...

One woman was killed, two other people were injured in recent Florida alligator incidents. Here's what to do if you if one approaches or attacks.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Prides of lions are increasingly stepping out of their traditional sanctuary boundaries, wandering into agricultural fields, ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...