Critically endangered frogs show off the amazing underwater press-up skills that help them survive in the wild. The huge aquatic Titicaca water frog is found only in a single water…
A few years back, I wrote a book that was an international bestseller after signing up with a major publishing house. Being a signed author is in a different league…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT This poor lad was left with his face covered in bites and blood after a pit bull broke into the family home and attacked him. The dangerous…
Scientists studying DNA from a 23,000-year-old caveman found in Spain have been astonished to discover he is related to humans found 1,200 miles away. The genetic material was extracted from…
A miracle baby born three and a half months premature and weighing less than a bag of sugar is ready to go home, his overjoyed parents have been told. Mum-to-be…
An injured lone hiker trapped on an Alpine peak by snow and ice storms needs a "miracle" to survive, say rescuers. The man has been named only as Julian P.,…
Scientists have discovered two bacteria with great antibiotic potential in a river in Chile. The breakthrough comes as the search for new bacteria to develop antibiotics is one of humankind’s…
The Black Death was only possible because human civilisation had become advanced enough to allow rats to survive and flourish, according to the first study of the ancient genes of…
A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor from Ukraine who was in Auschwitz with Anne Frank before being liberated by British troops has said that after surviving Stalin and Hitler, she plans to…
A photographer who spent 17 days trapped in a Colombian jungle has told how he suffered hallucinations after drinking his own urine to survive. US citizen Jeshua Kaslo had been…