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Newly endangered animals include desert frogs and snails in extreme ocean depths, both threatened by mining ...

But its showstopper feature is that the front part of its head is transparent. Early scientific drawings of this intriguing ...

A Maryland startup is shipping the first commercial batches of Superwood, a densified timber that stops bullets, resists fire, and beats steel strength-to-weight. Here's the story.

They’re gonna need a bigger boat. A wildlife biologist recently went diving for massive sharks off the South Shore, and his ...

For 2,000 years sailors fled it as a sea monster. The giant oarfish is real, it's 36 feet long, and scientists barely know it ...