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An underwater microphone has picked up two dolphins seemingly carrying on a conversation as if they were two people, the Telegraph reports.

More than 350 years ago, thousands Scottish soldiers were captured during the English Civil War by the controversial British leader Oliver Cromwell.

At the American Museum of Natural History in New York City last week, the blue-whale model that seemingly floats overhead in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life received its annual two-day "spa" treatment.

NASA has released new color images taken by the Curiosity Mars rover, which it says will help increase understanding of the red planet's landscape.

Scientists have recovered DNA from the bacterium that caused London’s 1665 Great Plague by studying the teeth of five skeletons.

A flatworm that infects freshwater turtles in Malaysia has been given a presidential name: Baracktrema obamai.

Russian officials are looking into a phenomenon that's been documented by a flurry of pictures on social media: one of the country's northernmost rivers turning a bloodlike bright red.

The first NASA explorer of its kind took off on a seven-year quest Thursday, chasing after a big, black, unexplored asteroid to gather a few handfuls of gravel for return to Earth.

An asteroid the size of a school bus buzzed by Earth Wednesday in an exceptionally close — but safe — flyby.

Nearly a tenth of the world’s wilderness areas have been lost in the past two decades, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced on Thursday.

The circle of life has been captured in a unique 48-million-year-old fossil.

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NASA's first-ever asteroid-sampling spacecraft is poised for an on-time liftoff Thursday evening, and mission team members said they can't wait.

Some 37 years after the deadliest known release of anthrax spores in history in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk, American scientists have sequenced the genome of anthrax DNA from the bodies of two people who died in the 1979 accident.

The population of the world's largest ape has collapsed over the last two decades.

This week, researchers in Scotland unveiled the fossilized skeleton of “the Storr Lochs Monster”– a Jurassic–era predator known as an ichthyosaur that roamed the oceans 170 million years ago.

A mission to study the inner workings of Mars is now set to launch in the spring of 2018, NASA announced on Sept. 2.

A record-setting American and two Russians landed safely back on Earth Wednesday after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Federal authorities took most humpback whales off the endangered species list Tuesday, saying their numbers have recovered through international efforts to protect the giant mammals.

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