A military museum in North Yorkshire had a very different type of visitor today - one with long ears, four legs and an ...

The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

From WWII to the Jersey shore, find out the chilling details on some of the scariest shark attacks in history.

History isn’t all generals and politicians. Sometimes it’s a stray mutt or a pigeon with a mission that rewrites the script.

In one of its most unique episodes, Kings and Generals explores animals that altered the course of history. From Porphyrios, ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

Some animals are so rare, they are more like myths than living, breathing organisms. Take the Upemba lechwe, for example.

The two-time Emmy winner almost starred on 'Cagney & Lacey' and helped lead the way for women playing strong, professional ...

Situated in a dark groove is a drum never to be beaten. Thin as a strand of hair, the delicate drum transmits sound waves. This drum does not speak; it ...

The National Gallery of Art pairs art and science in a survey of some of the finest Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...