D scans of a museum specimen show the spider-tailed horned viper’s lure is made of modified scales unlike any other living ...

A deep-sea robot filmed a black swallower more than 4,100 feet down off Trinidad and Tobago, its belly stretched clear around ...

MRI scans of 32 speakers show people use different mouth and throat movements for the same vowels, a quirk researchers link ...

Bali marine police released 20 protected green sea turtles seized from a boat whose suspected smugglers fled. Two sick ...

Utah researchers found drought-stressed aspen made more insect-fighting leaf chemicals in later years, a form of plant memory ...

Most people match bouba to a blob and kiki to a star. A study of 70 dogs found that they looked at the same shapes, hinting ...

MIT astronomers found a red dwarf steadily feeding on a brown dwarf that orbits every 87 minutes, a pairing the team says was ...

Two metal-rich rocks from the Escanaba Trough were heated past 212°F in a USGS lab, raising a fire hazard question for any ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover passed Opportunity’s 28.06-mile driving record on Oct. 11, and JPL engineers say it could reach ...

Bird flu was confirmed in two Yakima County dairy herds, Washington’s first cattle cases, as fall migration raises ...

Five cheetah cubs born Oct. 5 to first-time mother Zura in Virginia are streaming live, offering a rare look at a vulnerable ...

Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, found in Japanese ocean plankton, carries a 238,000-base-pair genome, less than half the size of any ...