An ancient Mayan prophecy suggests that December 21, 2012 is “doomsday,” leading survivalists to hoard candles, bottled water, and canned food. It sounds like a sci-if thriller ... but it's not.
Obamadon gracilis, a newly identified lizard named in honor of President Barack Obama, crawled the swamps and forests in the time of the dinosaurs.
The deadliest sea snake has a secret — it is actually two sea snake species, as pointed out by Ed Yong in his blog Not Exactly Rocket Science.
An archaeologist in Belize has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," alleging that the movie profits off references to an artifact illegally stolen from the country.
An international study shows American students perform better than the global average, but still lag behind many of their peers in Asia and Europe.
The oldest-known representations of a pharaoh are carved on rocks near the Nile River in southern Egypt, researchers report.
The secretive U.S. Air Force X-37B robotic space plane has been cleared to lift off Tuesday, Dec. 11.
The head of Kazakhstan's space agency said Monday that Russia's lease of a launch facility in the Central Asian nation, the only site worldwide currently being used to get astronauts to the International Space Station, may be suspended.
Meet Riki-san and Haui-san, a cute and clumsy pair of clouded leopard cubs that made their debut this week at the San Diego Zoo.
A new catalog aims to list all the known planets in the galaxy that could potentially be habitable to life.
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