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Beloved sauropod Dreadnoughtus is featured in the Apple TV+ show PREHISTORIC PLANET, episode 2 "Deserts." Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara discusses their presentation and how accurate the dinosaurs were depicted.
Octopus mothers slam themselves against rocks and eat their own arms before their eggs hatch. Scientists have discovered what leads to the self-destruction.
Watch this footage that captures a rare Megamouth Shark sighting
In a battle between animals representing the most powerful houses in "Game of Thrones," which beast would best the others?
Experts warn that the sun's next "solar maximum" could be more powerful and arrive sooner than expected.
Some of the most breathtaking zen garden patterns on the planet owe their existence to an unlikely artist: thousands of tiny "ice needles."
Credit: Quan-Xing Liu of East China Normal University
Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.
A photographer created an astonishing time-lapse video from aerial footage of sheep as they traveled between pastures over seven months.
Beloved sauropod Dreadnoughtus is featured in the Apple TV+ show PREHISTORIC PLANET, episode 2 "Deserts." Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara discusses their presentation and how accurate the dinosaurs were depicted.
The 400-year-old wreck of a cargo ship from the Hanseatic period of trade in the Baltic Sea, complete with the barrels of lime it was carrying for the stone-building industry, has been found in a river on the northern coast of Germany.
Divers finally identify the wartime submarine “HMS Urge,” ending controversial claims of its secret WWII mission.
Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.
Semi-identical twins are extremely rare, with only one other case documented before.
This snake in an Australian suburb was carrying an astonishing number of parasitic hitchhikers.
The skeletal remains of a horse unearthed in Utah thought to date to the last ice age are actually much younger.
There's a strange sphere of mass at the outer reaches of solar space. Did another star help put it there?
Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, primates and other social mammals.
A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science — Cenaspis aenigma!
The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.
Next time you're stuck in a thunderstorm, try this easy way to calculate how far away you are from lightning strikes.