The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the ...

With maroon stockings, white sleeves, a heathered gray vest and an orange mask fringed by a wispy white beard, red-shanked ...

In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

Ornithologists and locals wonder what the future holds for this chick being raised by much taller, but still doting parents ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

Security footage shows the two museumgoers pretending to sit on the artwork as they pose for photos at the Palazzo Maffei in ...

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...