This year's Ig Nobel ceremony was held at MIT on Thursday evening, with the awards presented by actual Nobel Prize laureates.

The Ig Nobel Prize has awarded unusual achievements in research, such as a paper that proves dead trout ‘swim’ like live fish ...

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize ...

Two incredibly rare fossils found on Scotland's Isle of Skye are rewriting our understanding of how mammals evolved. While modern small mammals live as little as a year, one of the first to roam ...

The research team of Japanese and American scientists hope the discovery will help treat people with COVID-19 and other ...

Manatees, also known as sea cows, are large, gentle marine mammals found in coastal waters and rivers of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Amazon Basin, and West Africa. These herbivores spend their ...

Orcas off the coasts of Spain and Portugal may be using boats as targets to practice hunting their favorite food, Atlantic bluefin tuna. Coastguards had to tow a 40-foot-long sailboat back to port ...

The northern hairy-nosed wombat, one of Australia's most endangered mammals, is only found in three locations: Epping Forest National Park, Powrunna State Forest and Richard Underwood Nature ...

Studying the physiology and ecology of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals through methods ranging from molecular ecology to tracking the movements of individuals and populations using ...

Humans have manipulated and changed the way of life of other mammals for thousands of years. This new edition of A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals explores the progress which has been made in ...

How much longer before a story surfaces that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a pet koala that was tragically killed when it fell out of a tree and eventually became a blue-ribbon casserole at a local ...

Image by Jess Webster. An indri lemur watches over its forest home in Eastern Madagascar To capture the story of one of the forest’s most unusual inhabitants, the BBC team ventured into the ...