News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and ...

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for both a CIA-backed 1953 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Joseph Warren was a key leader of the American Revolution, mobilizing troops and managing a circle of spies. But he's mainly ...

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

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