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A Louisiana man on Tuesday was found guilty of killing a female black bear, the state’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced.

One of the nearest exoplanets to Earth may be a decent abode for life.

Australian parks and wildlife rangers captured a monster of a crocodile Monday (July 9), according to The Sydney Morning Herald. The beast was 15 feet 5 inches long (4.7 meters) and weighed a whopping 1,300 lbs. (600 kilograms).

Our ancient human relatives got around more than scientists previously thought. Researchers in China excavated stone tools that were likely made by our human ancestors some 2.12 million years ago — the earliest evidence ever discovered of the human lineage outside of Africa.

The US military was apparently on to something when it began treating soldiers' uniforms with permethrin in the 1980s.

Scientists have questioned the credibility of Pliny the Elder's now 2,000-year-old account of orcas hunting whale calves near the Strait of Gibraltar, since those marine mammals aren't known to visit that area. Now, archaeological evidence suggests Pliny knew exactly what he was talking about.

A miniature horse that went missing during Japan’s devastating floods last week has been found alive and stranded on a roof.

According to a recent study, bright pink is the world's oldest color, having been discovered in rocks that are 1.1 billion years old.

A team of scientists from New York University captured on video a 4-mile iceberg breaking away from a glacier in eastern Greenland.

The oldest known written record of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” may have been found at the ancient site of Olympia in Greece.

The brightest object in the universe has been discovered, a quasar from when the universe was just 7 percent of its current age

Police in Maryland hope to track down a rapist and murderer who struck decades ago with an image crafted using his own DNA.

"I believe we have orcas in our soul in this state."

Israel announced Tuesday that it will launch its first lunar mission in December 2018, hoping to become the fourth country to land on the moon, following the U.S., Russia and China.

A look at some of the most venomous spiders found in the United States and what symptoms appear if you’re bitten.

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, it might be a better idea to call a photographer than a ghostbuster.

A huge star system 7,500 light-years away is shooting out radiation at superhigh speeds. A new study with NASA's NuSTAR space telescope shows that Eta Carinae may act as an accelerator of charged particles, which are also called cosmic rays.

In the original "Jurassic Park" movie, Jeff Goldblum's character, Dr. Ian Malcolm says: "What do they have in there, King Kong?", making reference to the size of the dinosaurs in the park.

The hottest known exoplanet is so hot that its atmosphere is "boiling off" and the escaping gas is being captured by its nearby host star, a new study shows.

It didn't take long for Mars to become a potentially habitable world, a new study suggests.