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Archaeologists have detected long-hidden features of a Visigothic city in Spain, including unexplored parts of a palace and a building that may be one of the oldest mosques in Europe.

Dinosaurs are in the news these days, but it’s not always for happy reasons. While paleontologists are making groundbreaking discoveries, their work is often overshadowed by outrage that yet another fossil has been auctioned off to the highest bidder. The most recent controversy involves a rare “baby” T. rex currently listed on eBay for more than $2.9 million, but similar auctions are common. The same vendor also lists on its website an “authentic” triceratops skeleton for $890,000.

Archaeologists in Israel’s Golan Heights have discovered an ancient city gate from the time of King David.

NASA has released a photo taken by its Curiosity rover that shows a mysterious, unexplained white light on Mars.

More than 500 vultures in Botswana have been poisoned after elephant carcasses were laced with chemicals.

A rare albino humpback whale known as Migaloo has been spotted off the coast of Australia, delighting onlookers.

Some people claim to have eyes in the back of their head. Perhaps just as useful, a new marine worm discovered off the coast of Scotland has eyes in the back of its butt.

More than 540 million years ago, primitive organisms that looked like frilled tulip blooms shared communal meals at underwater "dinner parties," according to fossils found in Namibia.

Black holes are engines of destruction on a cosmic scale, but they may also be the bringers of life. New research on supermassive black holes suggests that the radiation they emit during feeding frenzies can create biomolecular building blocks and even power photosynthesis.

Using DNA analysis of a 30-some-year-old whale skull, scientists were reportedly able to identify the animal as a rare hybrid of a beluga whale and a narwhal.

Astronomers across the globe are searching for an enormous undiscovered world dubbed Planet Nine, which could change everything we think we know about the solar system.

Marine biologists have for the first time recorded the “song” of the rare eastern North Pacific right whale, of which fewer than 30 remain on the planet.

Scientists are shedding new light on the mysterious Nazca Lines etched in the desert of southern Peru, revealing what some of the drawings actually depict.

An alligator trapper in Tallahassee, Florida, recently recalled removing a 12-foot, nearly 500-pound alligator from a highway in Leon County.

A biologist, some nuns and an endangered salamander walk into a lab.

Is the Big One coming to Southern California?

A beloved peacock at a New York state zoo died on Wednesday after it was killed during a run-in with a lion, zoo officials said.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a poll shows.

A nearly century-old tree with iconic fluffy branches that some say inspired the fictional Truffula trees in Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” toppled over in a California park last week.