Spriggina floundersi was no bigger than a few centimeters, lived on ancient seafloors in what is now South Australia, and ...

Prominent Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara flew Saturday to exile in the United States after serving a five ...

How life started on our own planet may not seem as interesting as finding evidence of life on Mars or the icy moons Europa or Enceladus. But the search for the first eukaryotes on Earth remains as ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Fossils suggest Spriggina floundersi, an ancient marine organism, displayed population-level right-handedness. This finding pushes the origins of left-right behavioral patterns much deeper into ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. — Three firefighters were injured Wednesday after a home exploded on Whidbey Island, where fire officials say a large cache of fireworks ignited after someone was smoking nearby.

One person was hurt after a house explosion in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Chopper 3 was over what remains of the 1930s farmhouse on Highview Road in Hilltown Township, near Sellersville, Monday ...

Alexa Herrera is a digital producer with the CBS News New York web team. She previously worked with WUFT and WTSP in Florida as a digital producer. She's a Long Island native. An explosion, fire, and ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND STATION, Wash. — Three firefighters were injured and three homes were destroyed or damaged after an explosion during a house fire on Whidbey Island Wednesday afternoon, according to ...

A gargantuan fireworks detonation likely caused by someone smoking a cigarette obliterated several homes and injured five people in an island community in Washington state this week, according to ...

TWINSBURG TOWNSHIP, Ohio — For a few terrifying moments, nobody in or near the Woodlands neighborhood knew what had just happened. It was a slow Thursday afternoon at the Oak & Embers Tavern a few ...