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The fossils of a "bonecrushing" ancestor of the modern-day crocodile that hunted dinosaurs 230 million years ago have been discovered in Brazil, stunning researchers.

The humongous, mysterious "ice rings" that pockmark the world's deepest lake during Siberia's winter and spring months may look like icy crop circles, but they're not due to alien activity, atmospheric conditions or even, as previously thought, methane bubbles percolating from the lake's bottom. 

A stunning rainbow-colored cloud of gas surrounds two stars that battled in deep space several hundred years ago.

NASA’s Solar Orbiter is set to launch on a historic mission to the sun that will provide the first images of the star’s poles.

That's a long time to stay in the same spot.

Wild gray seals can clap their flippers underwater as a show of strength, new research shows.

A team of archaeologists is debunking the myth surrounding the demise of the lost Native American civilization that was once at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Ill.

Scientists at Princeton University have made a stunning Neanderthal ancestry discovery that sheds new light on human history.

Though supermoons are a special form of full moon, there are several defining characteristics that set the rarely occurring phenomenon apart from the traditional and more frequently occurring full moon. So, what exactly is a supermoon?

A coyote and badger were caught on camera adorably using a culvert to cross under a California highway together, in what was described as rare footage and a first for the area, according to a post on Tuesday by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST).

From the early 1950s until 2009, a department in the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MoD) documented and investigated reports of UFOs. Now, more than a decade after the program ended, many of those formerly classified files about UFO sightings will be made available to the public for the first time.

The containers being used by the United States government to store dangerous nuclear waste far underground could be vulnerable to damage, researchers report.

Researchers have uncovered secret Nazi bunkers in Normandy that were used against U.S. forces at the D-Day landings during World War II.

Conservationists working around the Wolf Volcano on Galapagos Islands say they have discovered 30 giant tortoises that are partially descended from two species that have gone extinct, including the famous Lonesome George, who died in 2012.

A funnel-web spider that was dropped off at the Australian Reptile Park earlier this year has been nicknamed after movie star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson because of its massive size.

It’s like a real-life “Lion King,” although experts are concerned about the fate of this little ‘Simba.'

A photographer has captured a remarkable image of lightning striking the world's tallest building, the 2,717-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai, three times in a row.

A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military leader Pliny the Elder, new research finds.

Skywatchers will soon get a chance to see the Snow Moon, which will be one of the largest full Moons of this year when it lights up the night sky on Feb. 8 and 9.

A female cat in Russia has been given a new lease on life after veterinarians performed surgery to replace her front and hind-leg paws with 3D-printed prosthetics made from titanium.