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Excited chatter and the clattering of steel plates drown out the din of the monsoon rains: it is lunchtime in Laitsohpliah government school in the north-east…

Al cartoccio is the Italian form of en papillote, meaning “contained” or “in paper”, which is an effective cooking method that traps the moisture (and flavour)…

September 5, 20252 min readThis Gloriously Weird Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead for SexResearchers have finally traced the origin of the spotted ratfish’s bizarre forehead…

A threadfin butterflyfish swims though the Red Sea. A recent experiment suggests that these fish may experience something like pleasure. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images…

NEW YORK — The fish, glassy-eyed and inert, had been dead for decades. Yet its belly held possible clues to an environmental crisis unfolding in real…

This illustration depicts the early jawless vertebrate Astraspis being attacked by the sea-scorpion Megalograptus in dark, shallow waters. Both animals likely had tooth-like scales on their…