A regular day of fishing in Miami turns wild when something sharp-toothed bites the line. The catch looks unreal – a real piranha, right in local waters. How did it get here, and are there more? This ...

After multiple dusky sharks killed a swimmer off Israel’s coast this year, scientists investigated what might have triggered ...

A 14-year-old in Australia has been hospitalized after being bitten in the chest by a shark while fishing with his friends on Oct. 11. The teen suffered significant blood loss and life-threatening ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago-area parents thought their pit bull was to blame when they heard their 18-month-old daughter crying and discovered one of her fingertips had been severed. Turns out, the culprit ...

It might not reflect well on us that a spider as aptly named as the brown recluse is so misunderstood. While many people know the truth about the brown recluse — that it is not aggressive, but a “shy, ...

Deep within the ancient waterways of what is now the Amazon Basin, a monstrous predator once ruled with razor-sharp teeth and bone-crushing jaws. Millions of years before humans walked the Earth, the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed the first human fatality from Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus in the state in over 20 years. The EEE virus is ...

A TikTok video of a parrot politely asking for forgiveness after biting his owner—and then requesting to watch his favorite musical Hamilton—has captured the internet's heart, racking up more than 5.5 ...

The Emmy-Award winner’s cookbook, ‘Cook with Clydeo,’ is out Sept. 9 Sabrina Weiss is the Editorial Assistant of PEOPLE's food department. She writes the weekly recipes for the print magazine as well ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

An 8-year-old girl screamed in terror as a hulking shark ripped a large chunk of flesh from her body in a bloody attack at a Texas beach over the weekend. Little ...