Skull fossil discovery reveals oldest known modern bird
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes,…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Images from space reveal an enormous X-shaped building rising up from rocky terrain in southwestern China. This…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate…
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By Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) in a bid to save their species…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The arrival of a baby swell shark at an aquarium in Louisiana has caused a wave of excitement, after the egg…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around…
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By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists investigating a roughly 5,000-year-old tomb in southwestern Spain say the women laid to rest there…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a piece of animal vomit dating back 66 million years on a beach in Denmark.…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a post on the social media platform X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed Tuesday that the Biden Administration…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny…
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon”…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of wildfires tear through southern Italy every year, fueled by scorching temperatures and the hot,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…
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CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As more than 60 square miles Los Angeles violently burned earlier this month, then-President Elect Donald Trump…
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