Christopher Gray, a longtime New York Times columnist, had one unusual request before his death: he wanted to become a ...

Paul Nicholls is proud of former protegee Dan Skelton, who is primed to win his first British Trainers' Championship title and even tasted Cheltenham Festival glory on Wednesday this week.

The New Lion roared for the Skelton family in the opener, jockey Harry Skelton driving home the winner for his trainer brother Dan in a thrilling finish, to see off the two Irish fancies The ...

It took almost every imaginable form of land and sea transport-- trains, ferries, flat bed trucks and even cranes--but the 25-metre long skeleton of a blue whale arrived at UBC this week, set to ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family ... molar teeth had crests that are used to break down abrasive material, which suggests an omnivorous diet heavy on the leaves. The skeleton, discovered ...

It also shows that these arboreal mammals — an extinct family known as mixodectids — and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary tree. “A 62-million-year-old skeleton of ...