Research that had been kept secret for years that captured a fossilized snapshot of the day nearly 66 million years ago when an asteroid hit Earth, wiping out nearly all life on the planet, including the dinosaurs, has finally been released, shocking the scientific community.
Viewers of the BBC One program “Blue Planet Live,” were evidently horrified after a Sunday night broadcast ended with footage of a seagull appearing to eat a baby turtle live on air.
A mysterious fireball that lit up the skies over Northern Florida on Saturday night turned out to be a meteor that was picked up on weather radar, according to officials.
Officials with the Jupiter Police Department in Jupiter, Fla., were tasked with removing a massive, roughly 750-pound alligator from a local park this week.
"White-nose syndrome" has drastically affected the bat population in Minnesota, the state’s department of natural resources said Thursday in a warning residents could see an increase in mosquitoes, moths and other insects without these winged creatures.
More than fifty years ago, famed Norwegian explorer, Thor Heyerdahl took thousands of precious artifacts from Chile’s Easter Island, but this week the Nordic nation agreed to send them home.
A remarkable video has captured a kangaroo rat in Yuma, Az. leaping high into the air and kicking a rattlesnake in its face after the snake attempted to strike at the rat.
The bizarre shapes and diverse colors seen in some of Saturn's moons may now be explained, with the help of data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before it plunged to its doom.