When we think of giraffes, we instantly think of them being the typical combination of dark orange or brown patches ...

This video explores a wide range of human traits and characteristics by examining how common or rare they are across the global population. Using statistics and percentages, it moves from widely ...

Here are the world’s rarest and most bewildering medical conditions, disorders that defy logic, challenge science, and ...

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological ...

Researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have developed the first-ever lab-grown mini-stomach that contains ...

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Catherine O'Hara's heart and organs were a mirror image of most people's. Though that is rare, congenital heart defects are fairly common.

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

Researchers at the University of Twente and Radboudumc are developing a promising new model to enhance understanding of the ...

A discovery beneath Kolsåstoppen, a forested hill in eastern Norway, is drawing new attention to rock carvings created more ...

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