Justice Department accuses judge of abusing power in questioning prosecutor's authority Fears are brewing over an oil-price ...

After a dead whale was found on the bow of a container ship docked in New Jersey, authorities were working Tuesday to remove ...

An endangered whale has been discovered dead on the bow of a container ship docked in New Jersey, prompting authorities to ...

A dead humpback whale washed up in the Ocean Ridge community of Bethany Beach, Delaware, Thursday after floating at sea for a ...

Officials say the whale was found dead on a ship docked near Philadelphia as investigators work to determine what happened ...

A 30-foot juvenile humpback whale was found dead near Bethany Beach prompting plans for MERR to conduct a necropsy to find ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Matthew Wooller couldn’t believe his ears after a California researcher rang his cellphone recently. The radiocarbon expert said a few of Wooller’s submitted fossils were from woolly mammoths that ...

Imagine yourself scuba diving in crystal-clear water, playfully fending off a pesky remora before sensing the presence of a truly enormous shark. You turn around and the wide-bodied shark, measuring ...

The population of the North Atlantic right whale is slowly climbing. What's behind the rise in numbers and what more can be ...

It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. And I'm joined now by Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy from the show. Hi to both of you. BERLY MCCOY, BYLINE: Hi, Juana.