Found by an amateur treasure hunter in England, the largest known Anglo-Saxon gold hoard is rich with precious stones and intricately wrought war gear.

See Ohio daredevils stage their own Burning Man festival, a planet take shape, whiskers go wild, and more in the week's best news pictures.

A sharp-eyed spacecraft has uncovered pure water ice—and perhaps liquid water—much closer to the planet's equator than thought, new images show.

Some lizards get no respect. Even after finally being recognized by science, a new gecko species' middle name is still "misunderstood."

California tadpoles are developing into frogs with missing legs and eyes—deformities possibly caused by an alien parasite that usually attacks farmed fish, experts say.

Flying for years under the scientific radar, the new ghostshark species is among the world's oldest and—and oddest—fish.

See Saturn "split in half" by sunlight, sparkling sights near the Milky Way's black hole, the futuristic final plane to be tested in a dying wind tunnel, and more in the best new space pictures of the week.

For the first time, a giant squid has been caught alive—though not for long—in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. officials say.

Drastic drought conditions are killing iconic African animals and adding to political and ethnic tensions, according to relief workers who say Kenya is on the verge of disaster.

On the 143rd anniversary of H.G. Wells's birth, several of the writer's inventions—such as moving walkways and sliding doors—have become reality while others, like the time machine, remain science fiction.

Gilded masks, llama bones, and ceramic bowls are among the treasures found in a tomb that may have belonged to an elite male of the pre-Inca Moche culture of Peru, archaeologists announced.

Dozens of whales mysteriously come ashore in Argentina, one of the world's oldest synagogues is found in Israel, and protesters clash with water cannons in Germany in this week's best news photos.

Move over, T. rex, there's something leaner. A newfound dinosaur is nearly identical to the king of the Cretaceous—but a hundred times lighter and 40 million years older.

A black hole "pumps" iron, space junk litters Earth's orbit, the Milky Way stars in a new panorama, and more in the week's best space pictures.

In 2007 comet Holmes swelled to become larger than the sun and sent fragments of itself flying, producing the largest known cometary outburst in history, astronomers say.