VICTORIA, B.C. -- The mystery emerged slowly, its clues maddeningly diverse. Sally Lester, an animal pathologist at a British Columbia laboratory, slipped a slide under her microscope -- a tissue from ...

BERLIN (AP) — Europe's salamanders could be decimated by a flesh-eating alien species that has already wreaked havoc in some parts of the continent, scientists said in a study published Wednesday.

A rare alien-looking fungus that smells of rotting flesh has been discovered by a woman out hiking on Dartmoor. Known as Octopus Stinkhorn and the Devil's fingers fungus, it is native to New Zealand ...