Differences

African and Asian elephants might look basically the same, but they actually belong to two different genera: The scientific name...

There is a lot of confusion when it comes to mental health, and it is especially confusing to the layperson...

What's the difference? The short answer is "absolutely nothing." The more complicated answer is "absolutely everything." The American animal commonly...

Many people conflate addiction and physical dependence, but they are actually quite distinct from each other. After taking a drug...

You probably have both in your kitchen cupboards somewhere, and you might even actually use one or the other with...

Besides the obvious difference of where the milk comes from and the ethical debates about consuming animal products as opposed...

The United Kingdom, Great Britain, the British Isles, England: They're all the same place, right? Wrong. In some places, suggesting...

While you might not take any notice of whether you live on Main Street or Maple Road, the suffix of...

Dolphins and porpoises both belong to the Cetacea order of mammals, but they do belong to different families. In spite...

American football and association football may not resemble each other much today, but they both originated from the sport of...

Oftentimes, we think of the terms "psychopath" and "sociopath" as being used interchangeably to describe people who have no conscience...

The southern portion of Somalia is overrun with pirates, an Islamic insurgency, armed gangs of AK-47 militiamen, and hasn't had...

Although the names are often used interchangeably in the United States, yams and sweet potatoes are from two different families...

Hemp and marijuana both come from the same species of plant---cannabis. However, hemp is generally harvested from a subspecies of...