People shared all kinds of stories, ranging from eerie coincidences and happy accidents to just plain scary experiences that are hard to explain.

Smithsonian researcher Brian Gratwicke and colleagues describe how acoustic technology aided the remarkable rediscovery of four amphibian populations thought to have vanished from Panama’s mountain ...

In a small village on the outskirts of Chhattisgarh, residents are reporting an unusual and unnerving phenomenon—trees that laugh. According to locals, every night around midnight, the forest near ...

The findings suggest these ghost elephants survived Angola’s war by never leaving—adapting instead by becoming invisible. “I ...