A New York state archivist faces up to 25 years in prison for stealing historical artifacts and selling some on eBay to pay off bills and his daughter's credit card splurges.
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and aerospace designer Burt Rutan debuted a model of a ship planned to carry commercial passengers on a suborbital joyride within a few years.
Giant salamanders and other vulnerable amphibians will receive conservation attention and aid through a new program run by the Zoological Society of London.
The six-story-tall plant recently discovered in Madagascar self-destructs by producing hundreds of thousands of flowers at once—a "truly spectacular" sight, says one scientist.
The prehistoric "rat" had huge teeth, a new study says, and the animal likely competed with saber-toothed cats and giant, flightless, meat-eating birds.
The massive land animals were killed off by illnesses and parasites, say the authors of a new book who looked at disease-carrying insects trapped for millions of years in amber.
