They say every spooky story starts with a friend of a friend, and that’s precisely what makes urban legends so addictive.

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

Small statue from Peru. Some of you might just recognise the plaintive moan or humming sound of a llama ...

In the 1960s, the last of the desert families were coming into contact with white people. For one woman, the moment was captured on camera.

Kangaroo greets the camera with friendly curiosity.

It was an adventure into the unknown. From the surface all that could be seen was a small opening. Researchers had no idea how deep the hole went, or what was at the bottom. The ABC has been given ...

Britain is Russia without the borscht and babushkas – except in Russia they no longer persecute the victims harder than the ...

To show animals of distant locales to the public in centuries before photography, artists were sometimes enlisted to recreate exotic fauna through secondhand descriptions or some scrap of skin or ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS is taking a long holiday journey this year. It's visiting from another solar system altogether. It's the third interstellar object recorded passing through our solar system.

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...