Cameron Duke

Dinosaur metabolisms were diverse; some lineages were cold-blooded like their lizard cousins, while others were warm-blooded like their avian relatives alive today.

Scientists exploring the depths of Monterey Bay unexpectedly encountered a rare and unique species of dragonfish.

What's the largest arachnid ever on Earth? The answer is not so simple, say scientists.

A newly discovered species of freshwater shrimp called Koonwarrella peterorum may have reproduced asexually via parthenogenesis.

Injured trilobite fossils provide the oldest known evidence of cannibalism.

A weirdly bloated creature, whose head has been defleshed and body looks more like a swollen, discolored beast of myth than anything real, washed up on an Australian beach last week.

A massive Antarctic ice shelf that covered an area about the size of New York City or Rome just collapsed into the ocean.

Symmetry is so common in biology because life favors simple structures over complex ones.

The king cobra is not one species, but four independent ones, spread throughout the Asian tropics.

Pack hunting spiders use web vibrations to coordinate their attacks.

Pennsylvania officials spotted a worrisome concentration of ticks carrying a severe tick-borne disease in a single park. Is this an anomaly or part of a larger trend?

Goffin's cockatoos play golf in an experiment exploring their ability to combine multiple objects into one tool.

This Cretaceous-era cockroach was active during the day and has eyes to prove it.

A 'bomb cyclone' is expected to bring strong winds and dump inches of snow on the U.S. Northeast on Friday and Saturday.

An incredible video shows an African rock python swallowing an impala.

Scientists onboard an icebreaker in Antarctica were blown away when they spied a trove of 60 million icefish nests dotting the floor of the Weddell Sea.

A supremely weird new video shows a goldfish driving a water-filled, motorized "car" to help scientists understand how they navigate on land.

Ancient DNA reveals that woolly mammoths coexisted with humans in North America for 5,000 years longer than previously believed.

The disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.

The millipede has over 1,300 legs and was found deep underneath Western Australia.

Ants are highly social animals that have social networks, and they exchange info through vomit.

The Pacific lingcod has a mouth full of teeth and sheds up to 20 per day.

For some elephants, survival meant ditching their tusks. Now they are slowly getting them back.