An adventurous sheepdog has managed to make his way hundreds of miles to the home of his former owners.
A 600-mile-long coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon river has taken scientists completely by surprise.
An elderly gentleman using the facilities at his home in Ireland suffered a rather unfortunate injury.
Astronomers have discovered what they believe is a potentially Earth-like world in a nearby solar system.
The fossil organ was discovered inside the remains of a fish specimen dating back 119 million years.
An octopus in New Zealand called Inky managed to escape his tank and make his way back to the ocean.
A terrified couple in England have sketched a creature that they encountered while out driving at night.
A massive reticulated python thought to weigh in excess of 250kg has been captured on Penang island.
NASA's aging rover has captured an impressive image of a vortex swirling around on the surface of Mars.
Lead tablets inscribed with powerful curses have been unearthed at a grave site in Athens, Greece.
A comet bombardment that occurred on Mars 3.9 billion years ago may have created habitable conditions.
A missing patent for the world's first powered flying machine has been found in an old archive in Kansas.
The SETI Institute is aiming to find evidence of aliens in a place where nobody had thought to look.
Archaeologists have unearthed what is only the second known Viking site ever discovered in North America.
Scientists are developing special software that can work out just how long someone is likely to live.
The largest shark that ever lived may have been driven to extinction by competition from other predators.
New evidence has indicated that Homo floresiensis may have died out shortly after homo sapiens arrived.
The case for a hidden gas giant in the outer solar system continues to go from strength to strength.
A woman had to be rescued from the ocean after swimming for several hours in pursuit of a cruise liner.
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have caught a glimpse of what might be a new type of particle.