Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which ...

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Elephants have the largest ears in the animal kingdom, and there's a practical reason for that.

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a ...

New research has linked sea level rise and an increase in flooding in the U.S. Northeast over the past 20 years to the ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a ...

More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA ...

Three 1,500-year-old burials in the Negev desert have pendants of bone and ebony that may depict the deceased individuals' ancestors.

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