It's been said that ice cream began with China's Tang dynasty, when a confection of fermented yogurt was frozen with flour and camphor. Today, we regularly nosh on vanilla, Neapolitan, and even rocky ...

A group of sperm whales off Western Australia's southern coast unleashed an unusual defence on an attacking orca pod - a "cloud of diarrhoea". Their poo-clear deterrent thwarted the orcas’ hunt at the ...

One of the earliest recorded recipes for ice cream called for an ingredient few people today would (or could) reach for as a flavoring agent: ambergris, a grayish-white substance that's a byproduct of ...