An ancient bronze figure that was underwater for 2,000 years is offering new clues to how some marine creatures absorb metals to create hard shells, scientists say.

A seal hunter bloodies the waters, models strut the world's longest catwalk, mourners remember Hiroshima, and more in this week's best news photos.

Thousands gather at a temple in southern India each year to have coconuts smashed on their heads in a plea to the gods for health and success. Video.

Reportedly running since 1978, a special passenger train takes children living in one of North Korea's northernmost provinces on an hour-long ride to and from school. Video.

Although previous clues had hinted that the dog-human bond was forged in East Asia, new evidence suggests that exactly where dogs were first domesticated remains a doggone mystery.

Using aerial pictures of crop fields near Venice, researchers have made a detailed map of the buried Roman port of Altinum, revealing the remains of city walls, a network of streets and canals, homes, and even monuments such as an amphitheater and a basilica.

An Irish snorkeler gets bogged down, a Japanese polar bear takes a plunge, a bridge collapses in quake-ravaged China, and more in this week's best news photos.

Using aerial pictures of crop markings, scientists are painting a first detailed picture of the buried Roman city of Altinum, which some scholars think helped give rise to nearby Venice.

Once upon a time in England, swan was a delicacy, prompting expeditions to "brand" wild, unclaimed fowl as royal property. The queen's swan marker continues the tradition today, but the aim is protection not consumption. Video.

From the limestone caves to the world's tallest waterfall—"the eyes of the planet" are on the finalists from which the seven natural wonders of the world will be chosen.

Millions may have experienced the Apollo 11 moon landing on TV—and now, 40 years later, online. But a few facts aren't exactly common knowledge, including ...

New images from NASA spacecraft show the Apollo landing sites in sharp detail. Compare photographs of moon-landing bases taken before and after the astronauts landed on the moon.

As records have resurfaced, enthusiasts working from an abandoned McDonald's have begun restoring famous images of the moon made by the 1960s Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in unprecedented detail.

See NASA's newly restored video of the first ever moonwalks in 1969—and find out what it took to capture it. Video.

Many of the 33 mummies uncovered near Chiclayo, Peru, were those of girls—a rarity, experts say. Their throats slit, the girls were probably killed in a bid for agricultural fertility. Video.