The bonneted bat is a federally endangered species that is unique to Florida. Locals have finished building what they claim is the largest bat house in the world in an effort to save Florida’s high flyers.
Scientists have discovered a new species of pig-footed bandicoot — an extinct Australian marsupial that looks like a kangaroo, an opossum and a deer got a bit too friendly at the local watering hole — and it's about as strange as you'd hope.
About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage.
In flight simulations designed to recreate the problems from a doomed Boeing 737 Max airliner, pilots found that they had less than 40 seconds to override a controversial automated system and prevent a crash, according to the New York Times.
Jupiter may be known for its Great Red Spot, but the Hubble Space Telescope have captured another planetary anomaly in the far outposts on space – the birth of one of Neptune's "Great Dark Spot" storms.
For the first time ever, physicists at the world’s largest atom smasher have observed differences in the decay of particles and antiparticles containing a basic building block of matter, called the charm quark.
NASA’s historic all-female spacewalk has been canceled because there won’t be enough of the correctly-sized spacesuits ready in time for the March 29 assignment, NASA said Monday.
When night falls, a group of well-caffeinated volunteers with high-powered lights go on a special mission. For five long nights, they carefully search the desert to try and find a tiny and stealthy creature -- the black-footed ferret.
An Australian zoo has successfully doubled the population of a critically endangered bird by swapping in a feather duster for an absentee father who abandoned his chicks just before hatching.
A series of letters from Albert Einstein will be auctioned later this week, with the messages touching on a number of topics, including his thoughts on Jewish people’s rights to defend themselves, the rise of anti-Semitism at the time and "Hitler-insanity."
Legislators in Hawaii and New Jersey are considering the toughest statewide plastic and Styrofoam bans in the country, in moves that could usher in a wave of anti-plastic legislation.