"We didn't know what we were seeing. We had attributed it to stored sperm," he said. "I guess sometimes truth is stranger than fiction." Virgin births have been observed in other reptiles before, ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern Christmas classic has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Hot ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The world's longest tunnel, set to cut a six-hour journey down to a mere 40 minutes and costing over £20billion, has been given the go-ahead. The Bohai Strait Tunnel in China will consist of two ...

Sunday, Dec. 21 is the winter solstice, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. Long before modern science explained the phenomenon, ancient cultures recognized the solstice as a ...

What's more impressive: scoring 100 points in a single game or scoring 60-plus points in three straight games twice in the span of a month and a half? Wilt Chamberlain accomplished both during a ...