Mindy Weisberger

For the first time, scientists have created a genetic map showing how hydras regenerate their own heads.

The modern crocodile can breathe while most of its head is submerged because of specialized airway adaptations, which scientists can now trace to the Jurassic period.

Authorities at Colombia's airport in Bogotá found and confiscated hundreds of arthropods that German travelers had illegally collected and stashed in a suitcase.

Historians have found tasty new evidence that the people who built Stonehenge supplemented their meat and dairy diets with nut and fruit "energy bars" made with animal fat.

Haast's eagle may have hunted large prey like an eagle, but its eating habits — targeting the internal organs — were more like those of a vulture.

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The DART spacecraft launched this morning on its mission to the binary asteroid Didymos, where it will collide with the space rock for science.

More than 2,000 years ago, a guerrilla army of Jewish rebels stormed and defeated a stronghold of the occupying Seleucid Empire.

A great white shark attacks a seal near Cape Cod, and video captured the gory battle.

When NASA launches the DART mission on Nov. 24, the spacecraft will embark on a months-long journey toward a distant asteroid target.

The Australian Reptile Park recently welcomed the biggest funnel-web spider that the keepers had ever seen.

The pathogenic fungus Entomophthora muscae doesn't just kill the flies it infects; it also turns males into sex-crazed necrophiliacs.

Venomous fat-tailed scorpions stung more than 500 people after heavy storms disrupted their habitats and brought the deadly arachnids closer to people.

Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, primates and other social mammals.

Authorities never found the killer of a young woman whose homicide inspired the story of doomed Laura Palmer. A new book pieces together clues about her murder.

Archaeologists recently discovered a ring set with a purple stone, possibly an amethyst, that may have been worn to prevent the pain of a hangover.

New Zealand's long-tailed bat recently earned a very unlikely accolade.

Asteroid 2021 UA1, a space rock about the size of a refrigerator, made a surprise appearance when it recently flew past Earth.

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.