It’s the only known individual of the species living in captivity. Credit…Fernando Faciole/National Geographic For years, ...

James Webb cannot see chariklo’s rings directly but their shadows revealed that something is happening to them.

Long before Antarctica froze over, parts of the continent may have risen into mountains on the scale of the Himalayas. Sure, the peaks are long gone now, but their roots, geologists argue, may still ...

She came looking for copper, but found gold. Earlier this year, geomorphologist Brigid Lynch was wading through a wooded creek in California’s San Mateo County, surveying habitat for the threatened ...

When the teenage girl was buried in 17th-century Poland, someone fastened an iron padlock around the big toe of her left foot. Then, apparently after the burial, her grave was opened again. A large ...

Cape Town residents queue to collect drinking water from a mountain spring collection point last month. Photograph: Nic ...

CT scans also revealed a bigger surprise: the animal belonged to an ancient lineage scientists thought had vanished millions ...

A wasabi compound regenerated dentin in rats. Researchers are now testing it in people. A big bite of wasabi can wreak havoc ...

Settled by Mormon pioneers in the second half of the 19th century, Moab was still a sleepy town by the middle of the 20th—a ...

At the La Tejería fossil site near El Castellar in eastern Spain, paleontologists recovered 14 tail vertebrae and a ...

A study of nearly one million UK adults found that people who preferred their tea or coffee “very hot” had about three times ...

Three monoliths are still standing today. They stretch across about 174 meters of lowland farmland, with the tallest rising 6 ...