Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would otherwise plague a self-cloning species.

We’ve all lifted a rock or flowerpot and found a long, slimy worm underneath. But have you ever done so and found a long, slimy worm with a head shaped like a shovel or a hammer? If you have, you ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

Many flowers are indeed pentamerous — but across flowering plants as a whole, the petal number varies widely. Monocots often have flower parts in threes. Eudicots have four or five. Many species also ...

A bouquet can say “I’m sorry” without using a single word—and most people will understand it instantly. That’s a strange kind of power for something that can’t speak, can’t move, and will wilt in a ...

Mary Berry has spent decades showing the nation how to perfect their bakes, but her passion for gardening runs just as deep. With her forthcoming memoir, My Gardening Life, set to hit shelves on ...

The weather may be dreary, the cost of living may be crippling, but there's little that will curb our love of Valentine's Day. Research from the retail marketing firm Savvy, based on a survey of 1,000 ...

It is not every day that one gets the opportunity to build a replica Neolithic henge earthwork. Moreover, after 15 years of “weathering”, one is amazingly surprised to see that it not only survives ...