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If you think you've had a bad year, spare a thought for the poor souls who lived through 536 AD – as well as the millions who didn't.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the ruins of an ancient fortress dating to the 26th Dynasty, the last dynasty in which native Egyptians ruled before the Persians conquered the country in 525 B.C., according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.

Trash is a growing problem for residents in Los Angeles and as the garbage piles up, so do the rats, fueling concerns about flea-borne typhus, according to reports.

Officials with Alachua County Sheriff's Office in Florida took to Twitter on Sunday to share a photo of an alligator and a deceased shark — which were oddly found in the same creek.

Baby tiger sharks aren’t only eating seafood, or even seabirds -- they’re also chowing down on songbirds, scientists have found.

A critically endangered eastern black rhinoceros gave birth to a calf following a 15-month pregnancy at a Chicago zoo on Sunday, officials said.

The first humans on Mars will quickly become too fragile to have sex with.

Ocean levels are rising due to climate change and the long-held view is that sea levels would rise nearly three feet by the year 2100. A startling new study has suggested that view is woefully incorrect. Instead, sea levels could rise more than double that amount if global temperatures rise more than expected. 

Experts have discovered a unique ancient tool that was used by Maya salt workers more than 1,000 years ago.

Pest control company Orkin on Monday released its Top 50 Mosquito Cities list.

A look at where and why tornadoes happen and what to do if you're stuck in one.

Visit the right patch of desert along the border of Libya and Egypt, and you could stumble on pieces of pale yellow glass, the traces of a meteorite impact that took place 29 million years ago.

Ariana Grande wrote an entire song about her love for space, literal and metaphorical, and this weekend, she got the ultimate space-fan tour experience, visiting NASA's Johnson Space Center on May 18.

The amount of plastic pollution previously thought to exist around the world may be a dramatic underestimate — because the vast majority of plastic pollution may actually be below the surface.

DENVER — You've seen the first close-up of a black hole.

Another day, another giant alligator in Florida. Wildlife officials wrangled a nearly 12-foot gator strolling down a street in Ocala on Sunday.

Since first encountering the mysterious Ultima Thule, "the farthest world ever explored," earlier this year, NASA has made several discoveries about the ancient space object. Now, researchers from the space agency have made a startling discovery – the presence of water and "organic molecules" on its surface.

Remarkable images show gigantic icebergs as they pass by Canada’s Cape Bonavista.

Controversy is swirling around a 15th-century manuscript described as the “world’s most mysterious text” that has long baffled experts but was reportedly recently decoded by a researcher in the U.K.

Plastic pollution and climate change may be significantly altering the level of oxygen on our planet. Now a new study dives into the impact it could have on marine life, including squids, crabs and octopuses – blindness.