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A vast plateau of land between England and the Netherlands was once full of life before it sank beneath what is now the North Sea some 8,000 years ago.

The Curiosity rover has detected a "shiny" object which may be a meteorite.

Unicorns may be mythical creatures from ancient literature, but an ancient rhinoceros that was thought to have died out 200,000 years ago bears an eery resemblance to the legendary creature — and may have actually walked the Earth with modern-day humans.

Bible scholars believe the legendary Ark of the Covenant may actually be located in Africa after it was taken out of Israel.

NASA will arrive at an asteroid called Bennu today (Dec.

Three astronauts, including one American, successfully blasted off to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan Monday in the first launch of a manned Soyuz rocket since an aborted mission in October.

If human-induced climate change continues unchecked , 10 percent of the U.S. economy could evaporate by 2100, a 1,656-page federal report the White House slipped out on Black Friday (Nov.

Richard Branson made the bold claim last week that Virgin Galactic will send astronauts into space by Christmas. 

A strange mutant breed of cattle has reportedly sparked a debate over steroids thanks to their muscle-bound bodies.

In a moment that would seem right out of Disney’s “The Lion King,” footage shared by BBC Earth recently captured male lion’s intense struggle to fend off more than 20 hyenas.

A 6-year-old Asian elephant, the youngest member of the Oregon Zoo's elephant family who was the "darling of the zoo," unexpectedly died Thursday night from a deadly virus, according to zoo staff.

Experts in Israel have identified a ring that may have belonged to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who oversaw the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Kirk Lacewell has lived in Langley, Wa. for approximately six years, part of that time with his dog, Scout. But when Scout began to dig into the backyard, it wasn't just any old rock he was uncovering — it was a woolly mammoth tooth.

A species of tick native to the Asia-Pacific region that potentially poses a disease threat to humans has spread across the country, now located in nine different states, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced this week.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to rendezvous with asteroid Bennu on Monday after traveling more than 1 billion miles through space. The historic expedition will be the first U.S. mission to bring samples from an asteroid back to Earth.

A wispy, white substance was recently spotted at a historic site in South Carolina, leading some to think the objects were pieces of trash. But this cotton candy-looking material was actually an unusual frost formation known as “hair ice,” the South Carolina State Parks announced Thursday.

A Richmond, Virginia man who illegally fed bears for a decade in an alleged effort to protect them has been convicted.

Seismic waves that began off the coast of Africa rippled around the world earlier this month and no one seemed to be the wiser.

Gravity is big and weird and difficult to study.

Archaeologists in Israel have announced the discovery of an extremely rare 9,000-year-old stone mask.