Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC's) standing committee on Friday approved a one-week extension of the ...

From flowers that reek of decay to succulents shaped like brains and eyeballs, these eerie plants are proof that Mother ...

Unless you’re frightened of them, of course. Stapelia gigantea looks strikingly similar to the petal-faced monsters in the ...

One appears to be masquerading as a baseball. Others look more like rocks than living things. We're talking weird plants - and they're the stars of an upcoming Weird Plant Sale at the Tucson Botanical ...

Hundreds of dead starfish have been found washed up on beaches. The animals were discovered by dog walkers on Margate Main Sands and at St Mildred's Bay Westgate in Kent, on Boxing Day. The ...

Dog walkers saw the starfish washed up on Margate Main Sands and at St Mildred's Bay Westgate Hundreds of dead starfish have been found washed up on beaches. The animals were discovered by dog walkers ...

An older man was walking on the beach, as he did most mornings, when he saw a boy off in the distance throwing something into the ocean. As the man approached, he asked the youngster what he was doing ...

Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars — often known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Starting ...

Several years ago, an unusual succulent called Stapelia grandiflora f. cristata. It is a native of South Africa that thrives well in heat and is quite drought-tolerant. It has no leaves, but instead ...

I have a plant that I grew from a cutting a friend gave me. It produces a beautiful flower that looks like a large, slightly hairy starfish. Unfortunately, the flower smells like rotten meat and ...