Elena Weaver just couldn't stop giggling. The rosy-cheeked 4-year-old from Lancaster was petting the wet shell of a diamondback terrapin squirming in the hands of North Museum volunteer Sarah Annibali ...

Our cerebral cortex, a sheet of neurons, connections and circuits, comprises "ancient" regions such as the hippocampus and "new" areas such as the six-layered "neocortex," found only in mammals and ...

Scientists have discovered 115 new species in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia including a crocodile lizard and a snail-eating turtle that was spotted in a Thai food market. The species are ...

Thousands of new species have been found in Greater Mekong in the last 20 years. The Rhinolophus monticolus or Horseshoe bat was discovered in Thailand and is one of the 115 new species discovered by ...