Federal education officials say a New York school district is “erasing its Native American heritage” and violating civil ...

"Maybe they are explorers." Researchers issue warning after finding lost creature far from its usual home: 'We knew it didn't ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

It may look, and smell, foul — but this spider marks the latest exciting discovery in a string of new species found in the ...

The great eared nightjar looks like a tiny, fluffy dragon. These birds are native to South and Southeast Asia and use their ...

An alien-like Mola mola surprised surfers as it surfaced along the San Diego coastline, ultimately dying and washing ashore. “A rare Mola mola (ocean sunfish) washed up on our shore at Cardiff State ...

Everything really is bigger - and stranger - in Texas. This year proved the Lone Star State is full of wild surprises after several Texans spotted some rare and unusual encounters with sea creatures ...