Most of us learned about nature and animals in school. But as we step outside the four walls of those classrooms, we realize that the world around us is much more intricate and fascinating than what ...

Tentacles reaching from the deep. Dark mold overtaking walls. A familiar forest suddenly becoming strange and threatening. These elements in literature, film and games define the "eco-weird," a term ...

A bubble-breathing lizard, shelter-seeking elephants and a ravenous bat are just a few of the images in a spectacular showcase of nature's weird and wonderful creatures unveiled in this year's BMC ...

Much of the three-part “Planet Weird,” which goes out of its way to find the nutty in nature, is simultaneously fascinating and disgusting—the much sought-after synthesis of wildlife programming: ...

January saw two new admissions to the Wildlife Center for care, with both duck species being non-native to Virginia: the ruddy duck and the lesser scaup. Both of these duck species are migratory. They ...

Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have discovered sugars, mysterious space polymers, and dust from exploded ...

Police identify 87-year-old pedestrian hit, killed by driver in SE Portland Portland Police identified the 87-year-old woman who was hit and killed by a driver in Southeast Portland early Wednesday ...

Daniel Hicks, owner of Sunnycrest Farm in Londonderry, has seen his share of weird weather, including conditions that defy both reason and the season, and this year ranks right up there. “The month of ...

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. With Monarch ...

Newport man sentenced to 18 months for killing neighbor's dog A 47-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for the killing of Daisy, a 6-year-old black Labrador retriever, in July 2024.