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 ...

It starts on a river loaded with hungry pacu that everyone else wants gone. One solid shot later and a thick, armor plated fish is headed for the cooler instead of the depths. The video follows the ...

Researchers say they believe they've documented the first known death from alpha-gal syndrome — a red meat allergy caused by ...

A 15-meter-long 'steel shark' dives 350 meters deep without humans, then suddenly 'sprays' out a smart Piranha torpedo that hunts targets using sonar. That is KSOT-002, the Indonesian autonomous ...

ATLANTA — They may look intimidating, but researchers say the bite of the bright yellow Joro spider is nothing to fear. A new study from Clemson University, believed to be the first controlled bite ...

A Middlesex County man in his 50s has been diagnosed with West Nile virus (WNV), marking the ninth human case of the mosquito-borne illness identified in Massachusetts this season, state health ...

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 ...

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...

Myloplus sauron, a newly described Amazonian fish, looks like trouble at first glance. Its round silver body wears a stark black stripe that tapers toward the belly, a pattern that recalls the fiery ...