Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

According to the organization, the fish is a so-called “black seadevil” known by its scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii. They typically swim between 650 and 6,500 feet below the ocean’s surface.

A very rare fish sighting is making a splash on social media. A deep-sea anglerfish, with its mouthful of sharp teeth, was spotted near the surface of the water near the Canary Islands off the coast ...

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

Natural History Museum’s first fixed gallery in years to explore ‘broken planet’ - The world-famous London museum will launch ...

Mid-America Science Museum has completed the American Alliance of Museums' Core Documents Verification process, confirming ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be wild boars that were hunted. At the dawn of the Iron Age, some 500 years ...

There’s a brisk underground trade in human remains. The justices pondered a medical research institution’s responsibility for stopping it.

Fifty years ago, the Dahlov Ipcar was dreaming up lavish, exotic scenes in a starkly different realm, on a Georgetown farm.

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.

This UNESCO World Heritage Site (and one of the top things to do in Arizona) was Wright's winter home, studio and architectural laboratory, and it stands today as one of the most iconic landmarks in ...