Scientists may have solved a mystery about the biggest of whales and how they evolved...

The collaboration between Jake Gyllenhaal and South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was long in coming...

Drogon the ant joins a brilliant pink bush cricket and a freshwater stingray on this year's Top 10 list of new species...

Chinese authorities in southwestern Sichuan province have evicted followers and razed scores of homes at one of the world's largest centers of Tibetan Buddhist learning in a months-long operation that...

Rare autopsies show how orcas prey on great white sharks in South African waters...

The University of Illinois has cancelled plans to host a talk by Nobel Laureate James Watson after faculty raised concerns about his discredited views on race and intelligence...

A new study finds a warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west....

The fiancee of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez is speaking out publicly for the first time...

The World Health Organization has identified two more suspected cases of the deadly Ebola virus a day after declaring an outbreak in Congo...

New restrictions are coming to southern New England's lobster fishery to try to save the area's population of the animals...