At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

The African clawed frog is well designed for life in a pond. With strong hind legs for swimming, an acute sense of smell, and an appetite for practically anything, the sub-Saharan amphibian can now be ...

Scientists believe the planet’s largest living organism lives in eastern Oregon. It’s not Bigfoot, but that was a good guess. It’s a mushroom, or a fungus that’s related to the mushrooms you buy in ...