A stranded octopus gets a helping hand back to the ocean and takes the time to "high five" the rescuer. What really happened?

Uninhabited Baker Island is among the last to see the new year, as 2026 takes 26 hours to roll across the globe.

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A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of animal disease in a Late Carboniferous swamp—some 50 to 70 million years ...

As we take our seats, the unsuspecting guest of honor is already center stage. Fresh off a long flight that morning from Japan, she’s brownish red, glistening, and slightly squirming 10 gangly limbs.

On a warm night in August 2023, Oleksandr Kubrakov, then a senior minister in Ukraine’s wartime government, had just settled into a sleeper car on the eastbound train from Lviv to Kyiv when he got a ...

(Beirut) – The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war ...

The victim did not know her assailant, according to officials. A woman is recovering after officials say she was the victim of a chemical assault in Savannah, Georgia. The victim suffered burns in the ...

What was supposed to be a routine 12-hour boat ride instantly turned into a real emergency the moment the engine failed in open water. With no land in sight, no backup fuel, and waves growing larger ...

(Nairobi) – Militia fighters killed at least 22 civilians and injured many more in an attack in late November 2025 on a village in Kwamouth territory in western Democratic Republic of Congo, Human ...