Giant sea spiders, spine-crushing daggertooth fish, and pink "sea pigs" are just a sampling of exotic creatures hauled up by scientists during a recent Antarctic expedition.

See a giant squid glossily preserved, the world's tallest man getting a break, northern lights glowing green over the Arctic, and more.

A suspicious package in the bus's cargo hold turned out to contain a massive lower jawbone that likely belonged to an elephant-like animal.

For an odd-looking, big-nosed antelope on the steppes of Central Asia, the threat of extinction is just a whiff away, scientists say.

The ten-foot-long (three-meter-long) reptile likely came to dominate the seas as larger marine animals went extinct 62 million years ago, scientists announced.

The new genus of dinosaur-era, carnivorous reptile, found deep in a Canadian mine, is also one of the most complete fossils of its kind ever unearthed.

New satellite images reveal the "runaway" collapse of an ice shelf seven times the size of Manhattan.

A recent interstellar explosion was so bright that it could briefly be seen unaided—from 7.5 billion light-years away.

A 70-year-old tortoise gives birth, a sandstorm blankets Beijing, Indians celebrate spring in living color, and more.

Heavy rains pummeled the U.S. Midwest and South this week, killing several people and forcing evacuations—and it's not over yet.

The Iraq National Museum—which saw many of its ancient treasures looted following the 2003 U.S-led invasion—will not reopen to the public after renovations are complete, officials announced.

A season of wacky winter weather, from snow in China to balmy beach temperatures in Britain, has little to do with global warming, experts say.

The tiny yellow-green bird with a lilting song is thought to be endangered in its island habitat of Sulawesi, biologists say.

The artist may have helped illustrate the only known copy of a legendary Renaissance chess treatise.

Wild weather batters the United Kingdom, an imperial palace reopens in Rome, Brazilians fight police with bows and arrows, and more.