Rare juvenile T. rex fossil found by children in North Dakota to go on display
The "Teen Rex" is one of just four young T. rex fossils that have been found on Earth.
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The "Teen Rex" is one of just four young T. rex fossils that have been found on Earth.
Joro spiders can lay up to 500 eggs in a single sac and can parachute themselves "tens to hundreds of miles" away through the sky. These photos show where they've landed so far.
They're big, they're scary-looking and they float through the air — but Joro spiders are also among the "shyest" spiders researchers have ever found.
"Tornado Alley" used to refer to the central Plains region, but research shows new areas of the Midwest and Southeast now face a greater threat.
Researchers were tagging marine when the tiger shark they caught vomited a dead echidna — a spiny creature similar to a hedgehog.
"It is a matter of when, not if" the spiders are set to arrive, experts say, and it could happen any day now.
China hails its lunar probe mission as a success after unfurling a Chinese flag on the far side of the moon and collecting rock and soil samples.
The British journalist and author of "Midnight in Chernobyl" returns with his exhaustively-researched new book about the 1986 space shuttle disaster.
The New Caledonian fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has more than 50 times more DNA packed into the nucleus of its cells than humans do.
The spread of an avian flu virus in cattle has again brought public health attention to the potential for a global pandemic. Fighting it would depend, for now, on 1940s technology that makes vaccines from hens' eggs.