They may look like perm-sporting rock stars or even perfectly coiffured poodles - but this collection of specially-trimmed wildlife are actually all chickens. Pictured here is a bearded splash pullet Silkie.

Orchids have been around for as long as dinosaurs, but the puzzle of their evolution is only now being fully understood. To the layman's eye, flowers might not seem especially inexplicable. But what puzzled Darwin was the way in which, after appearing

There has been a lot of interest lately in the theory that the world is going to end in the year 2012. The hollywood version of events is scheduled to be in theaters in November 2009 and has a lot of people talking. So, is this something that we need to

Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than

Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two, creating a new ocean, say experts. This is due to a recent geological crack which has appeared in northeastern Ethiopia. The 60-kilometre split in the desolate Afar region - the result of two

Like a modern, micro version of The Thing, Antarctica's icy lakes have been discovered to house a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. The finding could shed light on whether microbial life evolved

We live in a colorful world, but many of the world's best colors are not man-made. Sometimes we need to step out of urban settings and step into nature, with no flocks of tourists to intrude. If we would steer off the fast lane and hike off the beaten

the image looked just like mother nature in tears, "as if she was crying about our inability to reduce global warming". 'Tears' in the natural sculpture were created by a waterfall of glacial water falling from one of the face's 'eyes'

two cats were found to have travelled from Germany to Northern Ireland. The animals were found straying in Coleraine, County Londonderry, five weeks ago. They were brought to a vet in Limavady and so far attempts to contact their owners have been

Aurora is the beautiful natural phenomenon that has enchanted mankind with mysterious movements, surreal shapes, and vivid colors dancing across the night sky. People travel for thousands of miles to see the spectacular aurora light shows in the Earth's