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Underwater views of Antarctic jellies are 'a magic portal to another world'The short film "Life Beneath the Ice" features delicate, illuminated marine creatures living under the sea ice in Antarctica.
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Soggy rodents tangle their tails in one big knot in horrifying 'rat king' videoA farmer in Russia's Stavropol region found the waterlogged "king." Specimens of rat kings are preserved in the collections of some natural history museums.
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Baby elephants frolicked in an ancient 'nursery,' fossil footprints showOver 100,000 years ago, extinct relatives of modern elephants lived in matriarchal groups, according to preserved trackways in southwestern Spain.
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Kids discover giant penguin’s fossil skeleton in New ZealandA newly described extinct giant penguin from New Zealand has unusually long legs and a long, slender beak, and it dates to a time when much of the region was underwater.
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Read an excerpt from 'Pump: A Natural History of the Heart'For millennia, the function and importance of this singular organ has fascinated physicians, philosophers and artists around the world.
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Why do primates carry around dead infants?In a new analysis, researchers compared hundreds of such cases across primate species.
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If you 'heart' trivia about the heart, enter to win a copy of 'Pump'Our quest to understand how the heart works — in ourselves and in other animals — has inspired philosophers and artists as well as doctors and researchers.
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Tick transforms into a glowing alien from a sci-fi nightmare in trippy photoOutstanding examples of stunning microscopy were recently honored in the Nikon Small World contest.
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Milkweed butterflies tear open caterpillars and drink them aliveThese ghastly meals provide male butterflies with chemicals that they use to produce mating pheromones, which female butterflies find irresistible.
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An 18-foot-long sea monster ruled the ancient ocean that once covered KansasA newly described species of mosasaur, an extinct marine reptile, swam through Cretaceous seas 80 million years ago and had a slender snout like a crocodile's.
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Stunning colorized footage provides a glimpse of the last known Tasmanian tigerThylacines, once widespread in Australia, have been extinct for nearly a century, but newly colorized footage provides a glimpse of what they looked like in life.
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Helmet-headed Cambrian sea monster sucked up prey like a RoombaAn ocean creature that lived around 500 million years ago was the largest predator on the sea bottom.
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Why is the color blue so rare in nature?Of all the colors we can see in nature, blue is one of the rarest.
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Who will buy 'Big John,' the biggest triceratops ever found?The largest triceratops in the world, scheduled to be auctioned on Oct. 21, will be on display to the public in Paris beginning Sept. 16.
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Artistic giant Michelangelo was actually quite shortA new analysis of shoes that may have belonged to the Renaissance artist Michelangelo revealed his small stature.
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Why tiny tardigrades walk like insects 500,000 times their sizeMicroscopic and near-indestructible tardigrades walk as insects do, scientists recently discovered.
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49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterdayMeet "Attenborough's Beauty," an ancient beetle that was so exceptionally well-preserved you can still see the colorful patterns on its wing case.
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Woolly mammoth's epic 50,000-mile journey retracedAn adult mammoth's preserved tusk revealed how far the animal ranged across Alaska during its 28-year lifetime.
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'Real-life dragon' in Cretaceous Australia was huge, toothy and a 'savage' hunterA pterosaur "dragon" that lived in Australia during the Cretaceous was the continent's biggest flying reptile, according to a new analysis of a fossil jawbone.
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Human influence on global warming is 'unequivocal,' IPCC report saysHundreds of scientists with a UN panel reviewed more than 14,000 studies documenting climate change evidence, to create a new report for policymakers worldwide.
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Tardigrades probably see in black and whiteWater bears may lack the proteins necessary for color vision.
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This hurricane season will be even more active than previously predicted, NOAA saysStorm formation during the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season will be higher than previously predicted, according to an update by NOAA scientists.
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Long-lost fragment of Stonehenge reveals rock grains dating to nearly 2 billion years agoAfter 60 years, a missing piece of Stonehenge finally returns to the U.K., revealing secrets about the age and structure of the rock in the monument's iconic pillars.
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Polar bears bash walrus skulls with boulders and ice blocks, study suggestsDo polar bears throw rocks at walruses' heads to stun and kill them, as centuries of anecdotes suggest? They might, scientists say.
