CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid...

A team of Australian and Indonesian scientists have discovered the oldest figurative cave art in Indonesia, believed to be more than 50,000 years old....

About 52,000 years ago, the skinned hide of a Siberian woolly mammoth was exposed to conditions so frigid that it spontaneously freeze-dried, locking...

The mummified body of an American climber who disappeared after being buried in an avalanche 22 years ago in Peru’s Andes mountains was recently...

Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came from...

Scientists think a perfect specimen of spade-toothed whale may just have washed up on a beach

Scientists have discovered a new way to predict El Niño events earlier than before. El Niño is a weather pattern that happens every few years in the...

Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago, and suspect there are hundreds...

Scientists believe the world’s rarest whale may have washed up on a New Zealand beach. Spade-toothed beaked whales have never been seen alive;...

The body of a spade-toothed whale -- a species so rare it has never been seen alive -- appears to have washed up on a New Zealand beach, scientists...