Standing nearly six feet tall with a dagger-tipped foot and a reputation for ferocity, the southern cassowary seems built for ...

Imagine the Western Plains of North America, from Texas to Alaska, submerged under a broad, shallow seaway. To the west lay ...

In 2005, research associate Robert Sullivan pulled out a lone piece of skull, specifically a frontal bone from the San Juan Basin’s Kirtland Formation. It would take another twenty-one years of ...

The discovery of new species of dinosaurs along the shores of Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba has scientists excited about future ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study details a deep-sea expedition near the remote Christmas and Cocos islands, where researchers visited unexplored seamounts and ...

A newly discovered Arctic process can dramatically boost the number of particles that help form clouds. Near melting sea ice, sunlight reacts with chemicals released by the ocean, algae, and ice, ...

MBARI and NOAA scientists share breathtaking footage of an elusive deep-sea bigfin squid.

Scientists have made a rare discovery in Egypt's desert, uncovering a shark graveyard of now-extinct species left frozen in ...

Astronomers just published the largest two-dimensional map of our universe - and it's breathtaking. The image took 13 years to make, covering 75 percent of the sky and including nearly four billion ...

Smithsonian researcher Klara Widrig studies living birds to build 3D models of their ancestors’ anatomies, uncovering how ...