Called osteoderms, the chain mail-like plates may have helped some species adapt to Australia’s harsh environment ...

A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently ...

A visitor recently ate the banana from Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which was on view at the Center Pompidou-Metz. The ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Because of the moon’s position, Earth is rotating just over a millisecond faster than usual on a few days this summer ...

As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was sparked ...

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a tag the size of a grain of ...

An analysis of a roughly 180-million-year-old fossil fin reveals serrations and flexibility that might have served to dampen ...

The iconic prop, which is expected to fetch up to $3 million, will be sold in September alongside other pieces of movie ...

Built under the rule of Ludwig II, the grand palace complexes in Bavaria were among 26 new sites granted world heritage ...