Why don’t humans have tails?
Although our primate ancestors had them, the tail-less human is now something of a rarity among vertebrates. Almost all mammals, reptiles and birds...
Although our primate ancestors had them, the tail-less human is now something of a rarity among vertebrates. Almost all mammals, reptiles and birds...
This is Whang Od. At 107 years old, she is the oldest remaining mambabatok – a traditional master tattoo artist in the Philippines using hand-tap m...
When Great Big Story relaunched in 2023, we weren’t certain which direction to go for as our first story back. But then we thought, what better way t...
Life is good. It's a bank holiday weekend and Susie Dent has provided the definitive list of the ten best curiosities in the English language....
When you think of all the potentially fatal encounters with wildlife in Australia, the backside of a wombat isn’t the first thing that comes to m...
It’s so ingrained that we hardly even notice it anymore, but ‘I’ is the only capitalized preposition in the English language. Why is this the case?...
This is Bruce Campbell. He has lived in an airplane in the woods of Hillsboro, Oregon since he bought his very own Boeing 727 back in 1999. Some 25...
This is a town in northern Belgium, or the south of the Netherlands, or both. Unlike other border towns, it doesn’t have just one simple divide r...
This striking creature is one of the symbols of the Arabian Peninsula, but it was nearly lost for good. As recently as the 1970s, the Arabian Oryx was...
Over the last 50 years, the popularity of sushi has risen stratospherically in North America. It has gone from a foreign delicacy with little...
What’s your favorite slice of pie? Apple? Pecan? Pumpkin? Or are you from Bicknell, Utah? In that case, you might be a fan of pickle pie. And t...
Researchers at Aston University in Birmingham, England have managed to send data 4.5 million times faster than the average home internet. This makes...