In a bizarre mishap, 10,000 wildebeest have drowned while crossing Kenya's Mara River during an annual migration, wiping out one percent of the total species population.
There is a "high probability" that recently found remains are those of the two missing children of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, says a Russian forensics expert.
One group of Croatian grandmothers may have found the secret to staying young: sailing. Meet the seafaring seniors as they navigate their skiff off the Dalmatian coast.
A striking seaweed, ribbon-like metal, and twisted geometry are just some of the winners of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
In what researchers have dubbed a "hotbed of deception," some male bat bugs have evolved females' fake genitals to prevent damage during sexual encounters.
An object that struck the high plains of Peru on Saturday, causing a mysterious illness among local residents, was a rare kind of meteorite, scientists announced today.
Natural formations or 5,000-year-old city ruins? Scientists are still divided over the origin of mysterious stone structures off the coast of Japan's Yonaguni Jima.
Stone structures lying off a tiny Pacific island continue to draw controversy over whether they are natural formations or the ruins of a 5,000-year-old city.
A controversial new study claims that interstellar dust and plasma can organize into DNA-shaped structures that have the ability to reproduce and evolve.
