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Scientists Are Releasing the Lovingly Nicknamed 'Snot Otters' Into Ohio Waterways in a Big Success for Conservation

Researchers Used Space Dust to Build a Timeline of 30,000 Years of Arctic Sea Ice

Nobody Knows What Sank the 'Edmund Fitzgerald.' But Its Doomed Final Voyage Will Always Be America's Defining Shipwreck

One Glacier's 'Out of This World' Retreat Might Have Set a Modern Record. Now, Scientists Pieced Together What Happened

An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants

How Old-Time Fiddle Music Took Root in Indigenous Alaska

Iguanas Are Native, Not Invasive, on This Mexican Island, DNA Study Suggests, Rewriting Conservation Ideas

The Term '67' Is 'Impossible to Define.' It Just Became Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2025

These 15 Gorgeous Photographs Capture the Beautiful Art of Blown and Stained Glass

Lemurs Are Having a Mysterious 'Baby Boom' in Madagascar. Here's Why That Might Not Be a Good Thing

The True Story Behind 'Nuremberg,' a WWII Drama About Hermann Göring's Cat-and-Mouse Game With an American Psychiatrist

Can Visiting an Art Gallery Lower Your Stress Levels and Improve Your Health?

This Massive Web—Home to More Than 100,000 Spiders—Found in a Cave in Europe Could Be the World's Largest

In an Out of This World Observation, a Museum Curator Filmed the Moon Getting Struck by Meteors—Twice

109-Year-Old Messages in a Bottle Written by Soldiers Heading to Fight in World War I Discovered on Australian Beach

Chimpanzees Weigh Evidence to Make a Smart Choice, in a Process Resembling Human Rationality

Another 8-Year-Old Boy Ascends El Capitan, Following in His Brother's Footsteps

Researchers Found Hundreds of Mysterious Dimples on the Seafloor Near Antarctica. Now They Know What Creature Made Them

The ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ Sank Half a Century Ago. We’re Still Fascinated

The Real Story Behind Netflix's 'Death by Lightning' and the Shocking Assassination of President James A. Garfield

Astronomers Detect the Brightest and Most Distant Black Hole Flare Ever Seen

A Short Walk in the Park Might Slow Cognitive Decline in People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s

800-Year-Old Tower Partially Collapses Near Rome’s Colosseum, Killing a Worker Trapped Inside

Researchers Create a New Antivenom That Can Combat Bites From 17 Snake Species, Trials in Mice Suggest

Archaeologists Unearth More Than 100 Projectiles From an Iconic Battlefield in Scotland

The Real Story of Christy Martin, the Trailblazing Boxer Who 'Created a Sport That Did Not Exist'

A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens

Fishing Line and Hooks Were Tangled in This Albatross’s Stomach. After Surgery, the Bird Is Once Again Flying Free

Orcas in Mexico Have Learned to Attack Young Great White Sharks—by Flipping Them Upside Down and Eating Their Livers

Still Unfinished After 143 Years, Barcelona's Dazzling Sagrada Familia Is Now the Tallest Church in the World

Remarkable New Research on Ochre 'Crayons' Colors in Scientists' Understanding of How Neanderthals Made Art

The Skyline of Paris Is Filled With Zinc Rooftops. But Can They Survive Climate Change?

How El Jefe, the Lone Arizona Jaguar Who Captivated a Nation in 2016, Became a 'Rock Star'

November's Full Beaver Supermoon Peaks on Wednesday—and It Will Be the Year's Biggest

This Fully Functioning Toilet Made From Solid Gold Could Sell for More Than $10 Million at Auction

This Tiny Tyrannosaur Could Settle a Huge Scientific Debate

You Can Listen to Kandinsky's Vibrant Paintings at This New Exhibition in Paris

Computers Are Getting Much Better at Image Recognition

Researchers Discover 'Death Ball' Sponge and Dozens of Other Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures in the Southern Ocean

Thieves Steal More Than 1,000 Artifacts From a California Museum's Storage Facility

Rats Are Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them—and Researchers Got It on Video

A Storm Battered Western Alaska, Scattering Thousands of Indigenous Artifacts Across the Sand

These Mysterious 'Decorations' in Spiderwebs Might Help Spiders Better Locate Their Prey

These Bats Glow Green Under UV Light, Joining a Growing List of Photoluminescent Mammals

Why Hundreds of Taylor Swift Fans Are Flocking to See This 100-Year-Old Painting at a Museum in Germany

This Designer Created Iconic Costumes for 'Bride of Frankenstein' and Other Classic Monster Movies. Her Mysterious Life Ended Tragically

'Ghost Gear,' or Abandoned Fishing Equipment, Is Haunting the Oceans. Here's How Conservationists Are Fighting Back

Rare, Out-of-Place Cuckoo Sends Birders Flocking to Long Island in Hopes of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Sighting

Bowhead Whales Live Long Lives. Do They Hold the Key to Human Longevity?

A Single Gene Could Have Contributed to Neanderthals' Extinction, Study Suggests