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An 800-year-old piece of piece of pottery has helped archaeologists piece together fascinating new details about a medieval ship that sank off the coast of Indonesia.

Late Monday night, Michigan deputies responded to a semi-truck crash on a local interstate. When they arrived, they learned that the truck was hauling a rather unusual shipment to New York: Bengal tigers.

Imagine a giant, bird-like dinosaur that was so heavy, it weighed as much as a modern-day rhinoceros. Given its heft, how did this bulky, feathered beast sit on its eggs without crushing them to smithereens?

The earliest example of our alphabet — a possible mnemonic phrase that helped someone remember "ABCD" — has been discovered on a 3,400-year-old inscribed piece of pottery from ancient Egypt, a scholar believes.

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

A couple of spacewalking veterans floated outside the International Space Station Tuesday morning for the first of two planned spacewalks.

On April 30, after more than 20 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) satellite re-entered and burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

"The X-Files" may have come and gone, but if viewers want to spot a UFO, perhaps they should trek across the U.S. instead of turning on their TV.

Termites can literally eat you out of house and home, as evidenced by a shocking video released by the National Pest Management Association.

Termites can literally eat you out of house and home, as evidenced by a shocking video released by the National Pest Management Association.

SpaceX has big plans for the latest version of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

Beachgoers in Great Yarmouth, England, are afraid to take a dip in the waters off the British coast after half-eaten dolphins washed ashore over the weekend.

A 6-foot alligator surprised one Florida homeowner after she came across the reptile in her garage.

"Single-use plastic reached the world's deepest ocean trench at 10,898 m," states the study plainly, referring to that great scourge: the plastic bag.

Alien life could exist in other universes, according to a group of scientists studying a mysterious force known as dark energy.

With Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano wreaking devastation on parts of the Big Island, experts are weighing possible worst-case scenarios for the disaster.

It has the money. It has the manpower. It has the political will.

A new study strongly suggests that at least some memories are stored in genetic code, and that genetic code can act like memory soup. Suck it out of one animal and stick the code in a second animal, and that second animal can remember things that only the first animal knew.

An asteroid the size of New York City's Statue of Liberty is expected to buzz by Earth Tuesday, and this time, scientists are ready and waiting.

Australian researchers have discovered the fastest-growing black hole known in the universe which is swallowing up the surrounding cosmos.