Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

The Valley of the Kings and other bucket-list Egyptian destinations offer a glimpse into millennia-old majesty and artistry ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

The popular salamanders are nearly extinct in the wild, where they are confined to a small system of canals in Mexico City.

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

The more than 2,000-year-old tire was found among a trove of artifacts during excavations ahead of construction for a new ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

After Paloma’s mother, the French painter Françoise Gilot, split with Picasso in the 1950s, she wrote a memoir about the ...

A commercial fisherman nabbed a large male Chinese mitten crab in the lower Columbia River late last month, putting ...

Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life ...