Giant otter standing on a rock with prey in the teeth. Image by zakharovaleksey via Depositphotos. When we think of dangerous predators, iconic species like lions, sharks, and crocodiles often come to ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms up to 3 feet long. The noodle-thin ...

Former president Jimmy Carter was touring villages in Ghana during the late 1980s when he first encountered people with Guinea worm disease. This tropical disease involves an infection with ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary ...

Scientists put their “stamp” on prehistory after discovering a massive dinosaur footprint in Mongolia said to have belonged to one of the largest two-legged animals ever to roam the Earth.

But there's one company on the list of the largest publicly traded stocks that is arguably a screaming deal. This particular company just saw its valuation dip to less than $1 trillion.

Situated on the Paraná River, shared between Brazil and Paraguay, the dam was completed in 1987. Itaipu Dam is one of the world’s largest dams by volume, spans 7,919 meters in length and rises ...

IBM is planning to build the largest quantum computer so far, by linking together smaller machines to create one with a recording-breaking number of quantum bits, or qubits. The firm’s first ...

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has become the largest shareholder of South Korea-based robotics maker Rainbow Robotics, increasing its stake from 14.7% to 35% for KRW 267 billion ...

China has launched the first of its new line of amphibious assault ships and its biggest one yet, strengthening what is already the world's largest navy. The Sichuan, a type 076 new-generation ...

A single organism. The mass of all the genetically identical trees weighs around 6,000 tons, which makes it, in terms of mass, the largest living thing on Earth. The Pando is protected by the US ...

These funnel-web spiders are the largest of the three species, growing up to 3.5 inches (9 cm) long. Danilo Harms, co-author of the study and an arachnologist at the University of Göttingen in ...