Photos of an Austrian Airlines flight went viral this week after a sudden hail storm ripped up the aircraft's nose and shattered its cockpit windows. One expert says it can happen in seconds.
The massive bony fish turns out to be a species that was "hiding in plain sight" for more than a century.
As temperatures rise, new research shows critical limits for how heat affects the body may be lower than previously thought. Humidity is a big factor.
Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.
The "Teen Rex" is one of just four young T. rex fossils that have been found on Earth.
Joro spiders can lay up to 500 eggs in a single sac and can parachute themselves "tens to hundreds of miles" away through the sky. These photos show where they've landed so far.
They're big, they're scary-looking and they float through the air — but Joro spiders are also among the "shyest" spiders researchers have ever found.
"Tornado Alley" used to refer to the central Plains region, but research shows new areas of the Midwest and Southeast now face a greater threat.
Researchers were tagging marine when the tiger shark they caught vomited a dead echidna — a spiny creature similar to a hedgehog.
"It is a matter of when, not if" the spiders are set to arrive, experts say, and it could happen any day now.
