Poaching is a major threat to rhinoceroses around the world. In South Africa alone, more than 400 rhinos are killed every ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Museum of Contemporary American Teenager is teaming up with American University to bring ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...

Ding and her colleagues captured video footage of the nematode towers in fallen apples and pears in orchards in Konstanz, Germany. They describe their discovery in a study published Thursday in the ...

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

But now, the government of Peru has slashed the borders of the protected archaeological park that encompasses the Nazca Lines ...

Nearly 450 objects are heading to auction this month. The collection reveals the "Twin Peaks" director's restless creativity ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...