After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

Turkey is located near two fault lines, leaving the 1,500-year-old structure vulnerable to damage. Architects and engineers ...

Scientists previously assumed the giant, prehistoric sharks mostly feasted on whales, but it turns out they probably weren’t ...

The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation ...

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

From Maine to Florida, the endangered, prehistoric fish is rebounding, but a recent study shows just how vulnerable the U.S.

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

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

It’s ironic that it took the approval of a foreign emperor who had just conquered Napoleon to restore luxury status to ...

Fragments of the bucket were first found at England's Sutton Hoo burial site in 1986. New research has revealed that the ...

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