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An Indiana angler was surprised to reel in a prehistoric fish more than five feet long earlier this month.

Archaeologists also detailed a grisly offering of 32 severed male neck vertebrae discovered in a pile just off the court.

Tumbleweeds may be iconic symbols of the American West, but regions around the world have their own versions of the wind-blown plants — even Antarctica.

Invasive lionfish in the Caribbean Sea are scarfing down fish species that scientists haven't even discovered yet.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is calling this unusual siting a “Turducken” of sorts, as it “combines two of the Bay's most beloved critters,” blue crabs and oysters.

A depression huge and deep on Mars has left astronomers baffled.

It's been around 11,000 years since giant ground sloths roamed North America, but evidence of one of them recently surfaced in Los Angeles, during excavation for a transit project managed by the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Craters as wide as 12 city blocks on the Arctic seafloor were put there by giant eruptions of underground methane gas.

Crews digging a tunnel for a new Los Angeles train line have found the remains of an ancient giant sloth.

Stormy weather thwarted SpaceX's effort Thursday to launch its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station.

In a state known more for its alligators, there is a new job title: Pro python hunter.

He was the American president who aimed an entire country at the moon, and for that NASA will always remember.

The rotting corpse of a 50-foot-long dead sea creature, possibly with tusks, washed up on a beach in Indonesia last week — freaking out people and launching a global guessing game to determine what, exactly, the floating carcass used to be, according to The Washington Post.

The plan to send humans to Mars includes a one-year layover in orbit around the moon in the late 2020s, Space reports.

The Kepler space telescope , NASA's dedicated exoplanet hunter, has provided a new look at the gas giant Neptune, and the observations could reveal more about much farther worlds that lie outside our solar system.

According to a new study, more and more Americans venturing out into the country’s wild places in search of peace and quiet and realizing that the woods, mountains, canyons and other natural wonders aren’t so peaceful or quiet anymore.

U.S. military officials say an unmanned spacecraft orbiting Earth since May 2015 has landed in Florida.

SpaceX was forced to cancel the planned launch Sunday of a Falcon 9 rocket due to a sensor issue.

A relocatable lander could explore the hazy skies of Saturn's intriguing moon Titan , according a new mission proposal.

American history, pre-history, and ecology all in one I once had a colleague, an expat, who preferred everything about his home country to the United States.