December 12Iguana nightmare: Massive iguana population turns Florida into 'Jurassic Park'Hundreds of thousands of unwanted visitors are invading Florida homes and public areas. These green iguanas are enjoying the Florida sun. Now residents are comparing their takeover to Jurassic Park. While green iguanas are not native to Florida, scientists say were first sold and shipped as pets from Central and South America.
December 12New Zealand volcano dead include 2 teen brothers from Chicago area; parents still missing: reportsA family with ties to the Chicago area has been confirmed to be among the victims of Monday’s devastating volcanic eruption in New Zealand, according to reports.
October 28Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, scientists findScientists believe they have traced humans' ancestral home to a wetland that existed in modern-day Botswana.
October 16California woman reunited with son she thought died at birth 30 years agoAfter taking a DNA test, a California woman learned her child, who she’d been told had died as an infant, was actually alive and well-- and now thirty years old.
October 83 win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmosSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved from the Big Bang and the blockbuster discovery of the first known planet outside our solar system.
October 3Ancient DNA puts Black Death's origin in Russian regionThe Black Death, which killed about 60 percent of Europe's population in the fourteenth century, advanced quickly throughout the continent.
0:45September 23Doctors: Face transplant recipient's donor face has been failingCarmen Blandin Tarleton is hoping for a second face transplant after her first one is starting to fail. Her first transplant was put on in 2013 after a domestic violence incident.
September 13Nightmare creature had egg-shaped eyes, Swiss Army knife head and a butt shieldA spiky, armor-plated "walking tank" with bulging eyes, a shield on its butt and a head like a Swiss army knife scuttled along the seafloor more than 500 million years ago, snapping up prey with a deadly pair of mouth pincers called chelicerae.
September 6China creates first cloned kitten: 'Meets the emotional needs of young generations'A company in China has created the first cloned cat in the country after the original cat died suddenly in January.
