Native to the Sonoran Desert of the American southwest and Mexico, the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) might look and ...

The Gila monster's bite may be agonising, but humans have been using the lizard's venom to save lives. Over 30 years ago scientists discovered the potential of Gila monster venom as a treatment for ...

River monster. Stunned fishers came face to face with this giant freshwater stingray after accidentally hauling it up from the murky depths of the Mekong River in Cambodia. The 4-metre-long ...

We cover the spread of Marburg virus, a stem cell treatment for diabetes and the way dolphins smile in this week’s news roundup. A new class of drugs treats pain at the periphery. Here’s what ...

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office released the autopsy of Christopher Ward, a 34-year-old man who died after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office ...

Among the striking discoveries made by Sillett’s team is that even the rate of growth of a big tree, not just its height or total volume, can increase during old age. An elderly monster like the ...

What does the Gila monster have that we don't have? The key to more effortless weight-loss, apparently. It turns out the venom of a small, Southwestern lizard — the only venomous lizard in ...

Philip Jacobs on the beach with the pliosaur snout. Image by Philip Jacobs I have been collecting the fossils of marine reptiles from the Kimmeridge clay for almost forty years. On the 5th April ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...

Kasper Hauser was a boy who spent his life trapped in a cramp dungeon, subsisting on bread and water and sleeping on a bed made of straw. At age 16, a mystery person handed Hauser two letters and ...

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than any other octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen that was 30 feet across and weighed more than 600 pounds. Averages are ...