Researchers have found evidence of a titanic tussle between a terror bird and a large caiman in Colombia's ancient La Venta ...

Two minor meteor showers — the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids — peak overnight on July 29-30, making it a ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young ...

A Neanderthal trackway discovered in Portugal shows how an adult male and two children hunted for food 78,000 years ago.

This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy ...

A 3D-printed hybrid drone can quickly transition between air and water thanks to variable pitch propellers. Watch a video of ...

Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these ...

A new test called PAC-MANN is designed to detect signs of pancreatic cancer in blood. It's still in development, but the hope is that it will help catch the deadly cancer early.

An experimental birth control pill for males works by blocking sperm production, and it just passed its first safety test in humans.

Experts have debated the meaning of this tomb offering for decades but generally agree it depicts some sort of ceremony or ...

​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...