The packet of genetic code that increases the odds of being a southpaw is also linked to certain mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, a new study says.

It took 1,200 Iranian weavers 18 months to make the soccer-field-size carpet, which will cover the main prayer hall of a mammoth new mosque.

Join a dangerous and controversial catch-and-release shark tournament, as sport fishers and scientists join forces to catch and study the ocean's top predators.

Hungarian miners have uncovered a scientific oddity: an ancient swamp cypress forest that didn't petrify into stone.

Some areas of Zimbabwe have nearly been wiped clean of wildlife?a disastrous effect of a highly controversial land-seizure program?a new study finds.

Fossils of tiny fish that lived 420 million years ago have given scientists the earliest insight yet into how vertebrates developed tooth-bearing jawbones.