There was blood was in the water, the sharks were circling and a grievously hurt Stephen Schafer - his thigh gashed and his hand mauled - was screaming in pain by the time the lifeguard reached him. ...more

February 5, 2010

A lifeguard who rescued the victim of a shark attack off Florida's Atlantic coast said today he could see several sharks breaking the surface and blood in the water as he approached in rough surf. ...more

February 4, 2010

An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be. ...more

February 3, 2010

Doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured. ...more

January 21, 2010

The University of Florida has been given a gift of 2.2 million butterfly and moth specimens. ...more

October 17, 2009

The Hope Diamond is going bare to celebrate a half-century at the Smithsonian. ...more

August 20, 2009

A nonprofit group recently gave 10 students an eight-day trip of a lifetime to New York and Washington, D.C. ...more

July 15, 2009

Shark attacks worldwide dipped last year to their lowest level in five years. ...more

February 19, 2009

Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds. Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which acted like an anaconda, breaks the snake length record by about 11 feet, said paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Missisauga. ...more

February 5, 2009

Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. ...more

February 4, 2009