Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

The collection includes shirts, sunglasses, a signed copy of South Africa's first post-apartheid constitution and a prison ...

One of its co-curators wants historians to expand on the display and “write a proper history” of this artistry ...

Wildlife officials successfully captured the young male, known as 157M, after he wandered into the northern Pacific Heights ...

So, he and his colleagues induced heart attacks in mice and examined responses in the vagus nerve, which carries signals ...

Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to ...

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

The schooner "Lawrence N. McKenzie" was transporting a load of oranges from Puerto Rico to New York City when it wrecked on ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one ...

Synthetic pheromones may be a promising tool in attracting and culling troublesome crown-of-thorns starfish, which rapidly ...

The portrait of the renowned Scottish poet vanished without a trace in 1840. Since then, scholars and sleuths alike have been ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...