It was Tetracheilostoma carlae, the Barbados threadsnake. It’s the smallest known snake in the world. The species had not ...

Tucked away in storage at a Berlin museum, a modest wooden shrine had gone largely unstudied for decades. It looked ordinary ...

Beneath a public square in Athens lies an engineering marvel that has been dormant for centuries. A part of it passes under a ...

You may be surprised to learn that the human brain, often studied under the lens of its electrical and chemical activity, also releases light. It’s a very faint, invisible light that has sparked a ...

Aging has always been tied hand in hand with the passage of time: a slow and steady process. A little less energy here, a few ...

This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...

Across the board, “blue places” dominated the nostalgic landscape. About a third of all memories involved bodies of water. In ...

From Roman artifacts to Picasso's gowns, this museum lets you hold the past. Most museums show just 3% of what they own. All ...

However, giving birth, and looking after a newborn, would be far more difficult in zero gravity. After all, in space, nothing stays still. Fluids float. So do people. That makes delivering a baby and ...

Growing a baby in space sounds like science fiction. Here’s why it might stay that way.

Rhett Butler is the founder and CEO of Mongabay. Rhett founded Mongabay out of his passion for wildlife and wild places. He ...