Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he'd put on some weight and regained his strength ...
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...
Makenzie Van Eyk wrote the letter as part of a class project in 1998, when she was in fourth grade. Recently, the note was ...
Scientists say just 200 grams of the material could capture 44 pounds of the greenhouse gas per year—the same as a large tree ...
Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea ...
Next time you’re walking through fallen leaves in a forest, keep an eye out for the Eastern red-backed salamander—a small ...
Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...
Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still yielding new insights ...
The insects participate in elaborate courtships, are devoted parents, occasionally eat each other and have a gregarious ...
On this day in 1718, the Royal Navy attacked and killed Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, off the coast of North ...
The "Gladiator" sequel centers on Lucius Verus, the secret son of Russell Crowe's character from the 2000 film. Both men ...
Officials claim the items once belonged to an influential Etruscan family that lived around the third century B.C.E. Reuters’ ...