Mindy Weisberger

Genetic analysis recently showed that California condors can reproduce asexually.

Filmmakers documented the expedition to a remote part of the Honduran rainforest in La Mosquitia.

Acid attacks from sulfur-producing bacteria could eat away at the preserved hull of a ship that was once the pride of King Henry VIII's armada, scientists recently discovered.

More than half of the species in five mammal groups went extinct in Africa about 34 million years ago, scientists recently discovered.

A cake that was scorched by WWII-era bombs — but remained intact — was recently discovered by archaeologists in Germany

The footprints of a Triassic dinosaur in Australia convinced scientists that the animal was a giant carnivore, but a new analysis proved otherwise.

Contraception may be the only key to controlling a population boom in feral hippos living in Colombian rivers near Pablo Escobar's former estate.

UFO enthusiasts who rallied in 2019 to invade Area 51 may have been joking about "storming" the base. But law enforcement officials took the idea very, very seriously.

Two graves that were recently excavated in an ancient impact crater in Bavaria, Germany, held high-quality goods that were unusual for burials in the Middle Ages.

A meteorite that landed in British Columbia crashed through a roof and narrowly missed hitting a woman who was asleep in her bed at the time.

Leprosy, a disease that was previously unknown in non-human primates in the wild, has been detected in two unconnected populations of chimpanzees in West Africa.

Federal prosecutors charged a man with illegally harvesting wild turtles to sell commercially, which is illegal in Florida.

A boy stumbled upon a mastodon molar while on a nature walk in Michigan.

Mathematician and astrologer John Dee, a confidant of England's Queen Elizabeth I, was also an avid occultist and allegedly used this obsidian mirror to talk to spirits.

New analysis of bones in the Tomb of Nestor's Cup revealed a surprising discovery: Long thought to be the burial of a child, the tomb instead held the remains of at least three adults.

Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.

Thawing permafrost driven by climate change could free decades-old radioactive material, antibiotic-resistant microbes and unknown viruses that have been frozen for millennia.

In the Umm Jirsan lava tube, the longest such structure in Saudi Arabia, scientists discovered piles bones belonging to animals that hyenas devoured there for thousands of years.

Unusually hot and dry conditions fueled a dust cloud and birthed a rare sandstorm of massive proportions.

A whale that was found belly-up on a New York beach likely died of injuries caused by interactions with people.

Using genetic data, a forensic artist rebuilt the faces of three ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing each individual's likely appearance as a 25-year-old.

One of the Southern Resident orcas, a 47-year-old female known as L47, hasn't been seen by census takers since February.

Maya people who had fled their cities after a volcano erupted returned and built an enormous pyramid from the volcanic debris.

The short film "Life Beneath the Ice" features delicate, illuminated marine creatures living under the sea ice in Antarctica.