A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

Imagine a world where plants don’t just sway gently in the breeze, but actively hunt, trap, and digest animals. It sounds ...

After inheriting nearly all of her grandfather’s savings, a woman faces backlash from relatives who believe she should share the money with distant cousins.

Both Justin Bieber and Madonna are related to Pope Leo, who is also distant cousins with Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton.

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date. This ultra-massive system, shaped like a flattened disk, existed just one ...

His distant-cousin presidents include William Howard Taft (through the Taft side of Benson’s family, fifth cousin one time removed), Abraham Lincoln (sixth cousin two times removed), ...

As for more distant relationships: Second cousins share about 3.125 percent of your atDNA, and third cousins are expected to share about 0.781 percent.

These plants, distant cousins of foods like cranberries and pumpkins, actually represent a botanical treasure now facing increased threat from climate change, habitat loss and invasive species.