Mindy Weisberger

'Prehistoric Planet,' a five-part documentary series, transports viewers into the mesmerizing world of the Cretaceous period.

DNA evidence from a 13th-century Mongol massacre revealed a tragic glimpse at a family of victims spanning three generations.

About 30 million years ago, resin hardened around a flower and a parasitic wasp, preserving clues to their relationship in an ancient ecosystem.

More than a decade of drought recently revealed long-submerged bodies in the depths of Lake Mead, a vast reservoir in Las Vegas.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Assyria dating to 679 B.C. contain the earliest written record of an aurora.

New analysis of fossil skulls from sperm whales that lived millions of years ago shows that numerous species of ancient sharks preyed on the whales … and ate their faces.

Scientists identified shark DNA in pet food products, none of which listed shark meat in the ingredients.

Recently unearthed footage that documented the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident remained hidden for decades.

A malformed megalodon tooth hinted at an injury that caused it to develop with a split down the middle.

When food starts running low in wasp larvae nurseries, the babies resort to cannibalism in order to survive.

Scientists recently described six new species of miniature frogs that inhabit forest floors in Mexico and Guatemala.

Scientists recently found that tardigrades can travel by snail to reach new destinations that were otherwise beyond their reach.

Once mating is over, male orb-weavers catapult off the bodies of females to avoid being eaten, moving at a speed that's too fast to glimpse with the naked eye.

Can tardigrades travel by snail? New experiments suggest that it's possible — and hazardous.

Violent head shaking helps normally placid geckos subdue dangerous scorpion prey.

A star that formed when the universe was young was recently spotted by Hubble space telescope. It's the most distant star ever seen and could be 500 times as massive as the sun.

Crazy ant colonies in North America are being driven to extinction by a fungus that targets the invasive pest species.

On March 25, thousands of young people around the world mobilized to demand government action to curb climate change.

A relatively small pulsar (a dense, collapsed and rapidly-spinning star) belched out a giant filament containing matter and antimatter particles that streamed for trillions of miles.

A Triceratops skeleton nicknamed "Horridus" is over 85% intact and is one of the most complete Triceratops fossils in the world.

Invertebrate butts are both diverse and bizarre, and are being celebrated on Twitter in art, photos and video.

When a rare 23-karat gold coin from 1344 hits the auction block in the U.K., it could fetch up to 140,000 British pounds.

The 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf figure is named for the site in Austria where it was discovered in 1908, but new analysis reveals that the stone came from northern Italy.

Humans are reeling under climate disruption, and there's worse to come, scientists warn in the latest UN climate assessment.