A tiny fly with very strong forelegs has been named after one of the world's most famous bodybuilders.
Twelve camels have been disqualified from a contest in Saudi Arabia after being given Botox injections.
The mystery of what happened to the three men who escaped Alcatraz in 1962 may have finally been solved.
One of the last two untranslated Dead Sea Scrolls has finally been pieced together by archaeologists.
500 years ago, a deadly epidemic known as 'cocoliztli' killed nearly 80 per cent of the Aztec population.
The notoriously hot and dry Sahara was left coated in a layer of snow following a winter storm on Sunday.
A hidden code may have finally lifted the lid on the mysterious hijacker known as DB Cooper.
There has been a distinct reduction in the level of ozone-destroying chemicals in the Earth's atmosphere.
A new competition has been launched to help develop animal-like drones powered by directed-energy beams.
For the first time, an artificial limb with a sense of touch has been built for use outside of the lab.
The DNA of microbes found on the International Space Station has been sequenced in space for the first time.
The state-of-the-art MQ-25 drone has been designed to provide the US Navy with refueling capabilities.
Government officials have been offering conflicting answers to questions about the program's objectives.
Authorities in Russia have been attempting to determine what has been giving the snow its peculiar color.
Experts have been left perplexed by the unexplained deaths of millions of kangaroos in Australia.
It has emerged that, until recently, the US government had been running a covert UFO investigation program.
There are now fewer than 100 Sumatran rhinos left on Earth, but exactly who or what is responsible ?
65-year-old Fethi Ada and his family had been out fishing when they encountered something rather unusual.
The remains of an enormous prehistoric penguin have been found on a beach to the south of Christchurch.
A growing number of old shoes have been discovered concealed inside the walls of British homes.