Snakes are fascinating creatures that come in many different shapes and sizes. Some species are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, while others can grow to be as big as a human. A few ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

The Atlantic wolffish is known for its powerful bite, capable of crushing hard-shelled prey with ease. Now, researchers have discovered that the fish's teeth don't just withstand these extreme forces, ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

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Drag superstar The Vivienne, musicians Ozzy Osbourne, D'Angelo and Brian Wison and Oscar winners Diane Keaton and Robert ...

Researchers have identified over 70 new species, from ancient dinosaurs to living mammals and insects preserved in amber ...

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A suckermouthed minnow, Supradiscus varidiscus, was initially shelved by Museum ichthyologists after it was collected 25 years ago. But the specimen, which was found in the highlands of Vietnam, was ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

Yes, we define indie rock pretty broadly for this list. Four decades after bands like the Replacements, the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, and the Meat Puppets got this scene rolling, indie rock is more a ...

The last 12 months have screamed by like a speeding comet, but not before delivering a staggering payload of genuinely great rock'n'roll. From old-stagers to returning cult heroes to prog titans and ...