You’re considering new fish for your home aquarium, but all you see in your local pet store are the usual guppies, tetras, and small cichlids. You want a more unusual fish that stands out from the ...

Florida’s Alida van Daalen arrives at the NCAA Championships poised to cap a record-setting career with a discus crown.

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s throw of 74 ...

PARIS, France — Discus throw is one of the premier track and field events held every four years at the Summer Olympics. In the discus throw, athletes hurl a metal disc-shaped object as far as they can ...

Most fish abandon their young at hatching, but not discus fish. Researchers have discovered that discus fish parent like mammalian mothers. Not only do the parents feed their young from mucus secreted ...

Simon Rosselli closed one chapter and had a satisfying start to the next season of his throwing life. Throwing where he'll make his home the next four years, the University of Oregon-bound Rosselli ...

Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a meeting in the United ...

Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896, athletes have redefined limits in pursuit of the Olympic ideal: "Faster, higher, stronger." Through a combination of training, better regimen and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For an event featured 2,719 years ago in the first pentathlon, the discus throw is long overdue for an analysis more sophisticated than "chuck it as hard as you can". Thanks to ...