Giant sea spiders, spine-crushing daggertooth fish, and pink "sea pigs" are just a sampling of exotic creatures hauled up by scientists during a recent Antarctic expedition.
The one-acre human-made cave in the Jordan Valley, thought to have begun as a quarry, may later have been converted for other uses, including a monastery or a hideout for persecuted Christians.
A stunningly preserved dinosaur has skin like that of modern birds and crocodiles, a paleontologist says. "This is the closest you're going to get to patting the animal."
Aerospace engineers have re-created Hitler's "stealth" fighter to determine whether the batlike plane was truly radar resistant—and whether it could have changed history.
Mating between a native salamander and an introduced species has created a monster—at least for animals that dwell in the ponds of California's Salinas River Valley.
A superbright object in a distant galaxy is "the best candidate yet" for a theoretical middleweight known as an intermediate-mass black hole, a new study says.
A huge Burmese python in Florida may have died while eating an alligator. But a new theory says it was a battle with a second gator that made the snake explode. Updated.
An Indian Ocean island nation has created three new ocean sanctuaries, including a tropical bay where hundreds of 12-foot manta rays and 40-foot whale sharks feast on swarms of plankton and krill.
See a shadow slicing across Saturn's rings, a gas cloud that acts like a particle accelerator, a NASA "moving van," and more among the week's best space pictures.
Despite falling nearly ten stories from it and losing a child in 2008, the Combatas—like the other seven families of a Bolivian village—continue using a crucial river-spanning cable. Video.
From glass pyramids to towers of greenhouses, see some of the concepts that architects have created for vertical farms, a proposed strategy for growing crops year-round at the hearts of urban centers.
Three times longer than today's piranha--and with more teeth to boot--eight-million-year-old <i>Megapiranha</i> solves an evolutionary mystery, a new study says.
See the full-scale re-creation of the top secret Nazi plane that could have turned the tide of World War II—as well as the last surviving example of "Hitler's stealth fighter."
Who do you want to see receive funding to put their Earth-saving idea into action? Check out the ten Green Effect finalists, and from July 7-20 you can vote—up to once a day—for your favorite idea!
