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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The artist's ceramic pieces combined practicality with aesthetics. Now, seven of his hand-painted dishes are heading to the ...

The state's new law marks one of the largest government investments into psychedelics to date, with advocates citing the drug ...