A man was arrested after hiding 52 reptiles under his clothes at the Mexican border
The 30-year-old U.S. citizen was trying to smuggle 43 horned lizards and nine snakes in small bags into the United States, officials say.
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This 10-armed fossil is the oldest known relative of octopuses and vampire squids
Researchers say they've found the oldest known relative of octopuses and vampire squids, in a fossil dug up decades ago in Montana. But unlike octopuses, the creature has 10 arms.
Endurance shipwreck has been discovered in the Antarctic 107 years after sinking
The wreck of the expedition ship the Endurance has been discovered 107 years after it sank in the Antarctic. Explorers and technicians found it in pristine condition under 10,000 feet of icy water.
A man who got the 1st pig heart transplant has died after 2 months
David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig.
'The Man Who Tasted Words' forces readers to question their reality
Most humans walk around feeling like they know what reality is, but the message at the core of Dr. Guy Leschziner's book is that all sensory information we receive is intrinsically ambiguous.
Voters reject spaceport plan long pursued by Georgia county
Critics, including the National Park Service, said exploding rockets after launch could rain fiery debris onto surrounding land, including a federally protected wilderness.
NASA is just now opening a vacuum-sealed sample it took from the moon 50 years ago
Astronauts hammered collection tubes into the lunar surface on the last Apollo mission to the moon. Now a sample is being carefully pierced open — to be analyzed by today's latest tech.
GM plans to test using electric vehicles as a power backup for homes
General Motors and California's Pacific Gas & Electric are aiming to test the technology by this summer. Ford previously announced a similar feature on its electric F-150 Lightning pickup.
Striking new evidence points to seafood market in Wuhan as pandemic origin point
Two studies point to a link between the animals at the seafood market and the spread of SARS-CoV-2 — foreshadowed by photos from 2014 of raccoon dogs and birds. A top virus sleuth gives the details.
In a first, a mysterious rocket part is about to slam into the moon — by accident
A rocket part set to slam into the far side of the moon Friday morning highlights the growing issue of space junk in orbit around Earth, experts say