One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — Good fairies, ogres, and a wide assortment of organisms not of this planet made their way through the gates of the 4th Annual Fairy & Magickal Creatures Festival on Saturday. Many of ...

Elizabethtown’s Second Annual Fairy and Magickal Creatures Festival drew several hundred fairies, trolls and a cornucopia of concocted creatures, as well as normal — compared to the paranormal — ...

Scientists found an “eyeless” cave creature with a “large hump” in an underground river of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Mao, Sudasinghe, Chen, Yang and ...

The remains of a rare species of wasp was discovered inside a chunk of amber in Japan, researchers said. Photo from Hiroaki Aiba Echoing the plot of “Jurassic Park,” researchers recently discovered a ...

In western India, a shallow roadside basalt rock pond serves all sorts of passersby. Cattle use it for drinking and bathing; aquatic beetles, plants and tadpoles live below the surface; and it is a ...