Global bans on finning have inadvertently opened up shark meat markets, prompting demand for threatened species, a new study reveals

Sold in exchange for exit visas in 1939, the estimated $30 million masterpiece will stay at a Spanish museum

The city's 13th arrondissement honored the British musical legend on what would have been his 77th birthday

A forensic artist has reimagined what the man may have looked like 2,000 years ago

Fissures near Grindavík ejected lava for the second time in one month and engulfed three homes in the coastal fishing town

With his victory at last night's Emmy Awards, the celebrated musician is the 19th person in history to take home an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony

A stream of particles flung from the planet's star is causing its atmosphere to boil away and lose 200,000 tons of mass per second

Dogs communicate through tail-wagging, and humans may have selected for the trait during domestication

Unseen for nearly 300 years, the art resurfaced during restorations at Christ's College

Astrobotic, the company in charge of the mission, says its Peregrine spacecraft will not reach the moon, and burning it will ensure the lander doesn't end up as space debris

Davidson Galleries had been preparing to move to a new location, so some of its works were especially vulnerable to smoke damage

The Charleston museum is launching a new initiative to acquire 50 privately owned works by 2030

Researchers catalogued the genes of more than 300 million groups of marine bacteria, viruses and fungi in hopes that the database could lead to breakthroughs in medicine, energy and agriculture

A successful eradication trial in East Anglia has raised biologists' hopes for ridding Great Britain of the destructive creatures, which threaten native wildlife

The nine-mile-long structure surrounding the Khaybar Oasis may have once protected against raiders

By analyzing a fossilized tusk, scientists have pieced together the animal's movements

The tiny animals nicknamed "water bears" can endure extreme conditions by entering a deep hibernation with a switch at the molecular level, a new study finds

The 183-year-old envelope is a rare example of two early forms of prepaid postage: Mulready envelopes and adhesive stamps

The supermassive structure dates to about 400 million years after the Big Bang, and it’s particularly large for its age