About 100 volcanoes dating to the Jurassic era were recently discovered buried under the basins of central Australia.

What might it mean for the moon to have thousands of tardigrades as new inhabitants?

In southeastern Colorado, male Oklahoma brown tarantulas will soon begin their annual migration to reach the prairies where female spiders live.

A man in China sang karaoke for so long and with such intensity that he suffered a collapsed lung.

Researchers recently identified cosmic iron traces in snow that fell in Antarctica. Preserved in the snow was dust containing a rare isotope that originated in a supernova.

The relationship between arm movements and gaits could help explain how arm proportions evolved in the human family tree.

A set of four new stamps created by the U.S. Postal Service highlight the fearsome and much-loved king of the Cretaceous — Tyrannosaurus rex.

Sometimes people have to learn the hard way that octopuses belong in the ocean — not on your face.

Scientists recently discovered there's a simple solution for deterring thieving seagulls: Stare at them.

Archaeologists discovered dozens of bodies in coffin-like stone boxes called cists.

It was the largest parrot that ever lived, and is the only known giant parrot in the world.

When you look up at the moon, there may now be a few thousand water bears looking back at you.

An ancient star in the Milky Way holds traces of another star that was among the oldest in the universe.

Eat more salad, they said. It's good for you, they said.

The unfortunate man was likely a poor farmer who died of tuberculosis.

Researchers have mapped the Milky Way in unprecedented detail using data from thousands of giant, pulsating stars.

Epstein is thought to have drawn inspiration from an ideology known as "transhumanism."

Talk about feeling down-in-the-mouth.

Unlike its more patient tick cousins, this supersize parasite pursues its prey.

Swarms of grasshoppers resembled fabled plagues of biblical proportions.

Heavy rainfall in December buried plants under a heavy layer of ice.

Heat that shattered records in Europe this week is on the move.

A type of dark matter might be capable of causing gunshot-like wounds.

Analysis of her weapon suggested it came from what is now Poland.