PEOPLE magazine is on the search for the World’s Cutest Dog. The magazine has partnered with Pedigree for the eighth year in ...

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A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

The conodont Wurmiella excavata was said to have had razor-sharp structures that processed prey from left to right, rather ...

In a baffling show of generosity, killer whales across the globe are giving fish to humans—and scientists are racing to ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...

While getting spectacular video of a massive great white shark, cage divers get pooped on by the ocean's most fearsome ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

In 5 To Watch, five writers from The A.V. Club look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored ...

A mola mola, or ocean sunfish, washes up dead on an Oregon Beach: Seaside Aquarium. The fish can reach lengths of up to 10 feet and weigh up to 5,000 pounds.