One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

This weekend, NBC premiered its brand new fairy tale procedural Grimm. The show exposes the world to the dark underbelly of criminal fairy tale behavior, and it’s like Law & Order for exceptionally ...

Scientists found an “eyeless” cave creature with a “large hump” in an underground river of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Mao, Sudasinghe, Chen, Yang and ...

Scientists scooped several red animals from a mountain pond in a Yunnan national park and discovered a new species, the study said. Photo from W-S Jiang Perched on a small patch of grass in the middle ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — Good fairies, ogres, and a wide assortment of organisms not of this planet made their way through the gates of the 4th Annual Fairy & Magickal Creatures Festival on Saturday. Many of ...

Once upon a time, a king’s beautiful wife was on her deathbed, and had her husband promise not to remarry unless he found someone just as pretty as her, and with such golden hair as she had. No one in ...