The intricately carved vase is giving experts a glimpse into ancient rituals that included food offerings, chocolate enemas, and hallucinations induced by vomiting.

Scientists have announced the discovery of a "mummy" dinosaur, nicknamed Dakota, with much of its skin still intact.

A mostly intact 67-million-old dinosaur has been found that is already rewriting theories of how dinos moved and what they looked like, scientists say.

Hubble snaps a "holiday" galaxy, a diver encounters a massive whale shark, smuggled gorillas are returned to Africa, and more.

A new robot yelps when dental students drill too close to sensors that have been fitted where nerve endings would be.

A seven-year-old Cambodian boy and his python pal like to eat duck and chicken. Only the 15-plus-foot python eats 22 pounds of it weekly.

Monkeys are the tourist draw in Lop Buri, Thailand. So once a year, the town cooks up a fancy feast to thank the smaller primates for all their "monkey business."

Several of the ornamental trees, celebrated as a national symbol of spring, are flowering early, an event that some experts link to climate change.

Farmers recently attacked police who were looking to seize dinosaur bones, setting up the first court test of a fossil-trade ban targeting "peasant paleontologists."

Activists protest Japan's whaling, a deadly mine accident roils Ukraine, fog envelopes Dubai skyscrapers, and more.

The 8-foot (2.5-meter) prehistoric predator is the biggest bug ever found, says a study of the beast's huge fossil claw.

Wildlife conservationists in India have devised a humane way to prevent wild elephant attacks on settlements and crops -- building fences smeared with the world's hottest chili.

Exclusive new pictures show a 450-pound Mekong giant catfish. It's the only one caught this year—a bad sign, according to a scientist on the scene.

Despite a brush with extinction a few decades ago, the wilder cousins to your Thanksgiving entrée are today thriving on the streets of suburban America.

Stem cells from cloned monkey embryos cause cautious optimism in scientists who say the advance may eventually lead to better human medical treatments.