Ancient whale unearthed in Peru could be heaviest animal ever

A new species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found. Scientists reported Wednesday that the creature could challenge the blue whale’s title as the heaviest animal to live on Earth.

Scientists find climate change made July hotter for 4 out of 5 humans on Earth

Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily, according to a flash study.

National parks and hundreds of other recreation sites are free to visit Friday

The National Park System includes parks, historic sites, monuments, recreation areas, battlefields and seashores. You can visit them all for free on Friday.

NASA loses, regains contact with Voyager 2 probe after sending wrong command

Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth and severed contact.

Euclid mission to study dark universe takes 1st test images, NASA reveals

“After more than 11 years of designing and developing Euclid, it’s exhilarating and enormously emotional to see these first images," said Euclid Project Manager Giuseppe Racca of the European Space Agency.

Remarkable fossil shows dinosaur, mammal forever frozen in epic battle

The 125 million-year-old fossil was discovered in the Lujiatun Member of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian formation in China back in 2012.

Rare whale spotted off of the Texas coast
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Boaters took video of the Rice's whale on Monday about 100 miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas. (Courtesy of Brandon Overton/FOX Weather)

46,000 year old worm alive after being frozen
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A 46,000 year old worm has been brought back to life. The worm was frozen away in the Siberian permafrost in a sleep mode that allows the critter to be able to survive.

Ancient Nero's Theater ruins discovered under garden near Vatican

The ruins of Nero’s Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered steps from the Vatican.