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Police in Roanoke, Va., apparently want drivers to brake for snakes. Officers delayed motorists at a busy intersection Tuesday as they diverted traffic to allow an endangered rattlesnake to slither across the road at its leisure.

Search and rescue operations in America's national parks cost taxpayers more than $3 million last year, with the Grand Canyon in Arizona and Yosemite in California leading the way for most reported incidents, according to National Park Service statistics.

Indiana park officials stumbled upon a "peculiar" creature when they were working in a Posey County swamp last week.

A Florida woman out for a boat ride on Sunday captured shocking footage of what appears to be a hammerhead shark chasing a tarpon.

A family in California received an unexpected visitor earlier this month when a roughly 7-foot, 300-pound black bear entered their home through the kitchen window.

Scientists have discovered a site off the Texas coast that they say is the world’s first known manta ray nursery.

NASA unveiled its plan to protect Earth and predict the chances for a threat from a near-Earth object (NEO), outlining five goals, including enhanced detection and improved modeling.

A Canadian fisherman made a 1-in-100 million catch when he pulled a rainbow-colored lobster out of the water off the coast of Maine.

The “dumpling-shaped” asteroid Ryugu is looming into view of Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft as it prepares to rendezvous with the space rock.

A new study suggests that rapid cooling within the Earth's mantle through plate tectonics played a major role in the development of the first life forms, which in turn led to the oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere. The study was published in the March 2018 issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Tucked away in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the world's first known nursery for baby manta rays has been discovered amid the shallow reefs. And marine scientists are excited.

Retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly has lambasted President Trump's proposal to create a Space Force, saying the Air Force already does the tasks Trump is talking about and labeling the plan a "dumb idea."

A 62-foot blue whale carcass that washed ashore north of San Francisco on Monday died from a ship strike, the Marine Mammal Center said Tuesday.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, rejoice! The summer season will officially commence on Thursday, June 21 thanks to the summer solstice.

A keeper at Perth Zoo has written a beautiful tribute to the world’s oldest Sumatran orangutan after she passed away at the age of 62.

Scientists in China found a fossil from a giant panda that lived 22,000 years ago. Until they excavated the fossil, reassembled it and analyzed its mitochondrial DNA, biologists had no idea this panda lineage even existed.

An odd-looking fish that lives on the ocean floor shocked Texas beachgoers and wildlife experts when it washed up on Padre Island National Seashore in Corpus Christi, Texas, last week.

We were warned. On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told the US Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived.

The world's first flying, autonomous, artificially intelligent (AI) astronaut assistant will soon get to work in space.

The cause of a mysterious rock formation on Mars that NASA deemed "an enigmatic pile of eroding sediments" and UFO hunters strongly believe is an extraterrestrial spacecraft was likely caused by volcanic activity on the planet billions of years ago, researchers say.