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The smallest stegosaur footprint ever found has been discovered in China, and suggests that the baby pranced around on hind feet.

A new hypothesis suggests that humans were hypercarnivores more than 2 million years ago, specializing in taking down the largest prey.

Some of the best locations nature has to offer, from an island teeming with dragons to a famous waterfall.

A simulated binary system animation shows how extreme gravity warps two black holes locked in a mesmerizing "dance."

When a white dwarf star explodes as a supernova, it may be detonating like a nuclear weapon on Earth, a new study finds.

Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot...

What steps can night owls take to become early birds?

Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the moon.

U.S. overdose deaths surged during the first half of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to preliminary data from the CDC.

If cats were loved, why were so many sacrificed?

The Lyrid meteor shows will light up the skies from April 16 to April 30. Here's how to watch.

The researchers say that brain plasticity like this may not just be a trick of the ants. Other animals could do it too, and we may only just...

Digging deep into T.rex's history helped researchers determine how many of these apex predators ever existed.

Dogs can sniff out SARS-CoV-2 in urine samples with 96% accuracy, according to a proof-of-concept study.

The European Space Agency’s Space Situational Awareness program is tackling the problem on three fronts.

People vaccinated against COVID-19 may require booster shots within nine to 12 months of their initial vaccination.

The advance brings up some ethical questions.

Physicists have long been unable to describe what happened just after the Big Bang when a teensy blip ballooned into the universe, a process...

Pterosaur neck vertebrae had an incredible internal structure.

Leaving middle seats empty on airplanes helps reduce COVID exposure to passengers, a new CDC study finds.

Find out everything about adenoviruses, from what they are and what symptoms to watch out for to how adenoviruses are used in vaccines, such...

Archaeologists in Peru are taking steps to preserve and study a 3,200-year-old temple painted with a mural of a spider deity holding a knife...

Despite a lack of hard evidence, some people believe that Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is a giant ape-like creature that roams North Amer...

Four dead gray whales have washed up in San Francisco Bay in eight days, prompting fears that the species is under threat in the area.

Stone age people may have deliberately ventured into oxygen-depleted caves to paint while having out-of-body experiences and hallucinations,...