Beetles battling for mating rights, a bear stalking through the rainforest and a damselfly perched in front of a waterfall ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria ...

In recent years, the deep-sea giant isopod has also become a seafood delicacy in Vietnam, where it was discovered ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "In Slavery's Wake" tells the international history of ...

Though sales of Frisbees remained steady, it wasn’t until Wham-O hired toy inventor Ed Headrick in 1964 as head of research ...

In lab experiments, a protein found in the Sydney rock oyster made some antibiotics more effective and killed several types ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...