Poaching is a major threat to rhinoceroses around the world. In South Africa alone, more than 400 rhinos are killed every ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Museum of Contemporary American Teenager is teaming up with American University to bring ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...

Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

But now, the government of Peru has slashed the borders of the protected archaeological park that encompasses the Nazca Lines ...

Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the ...

Nearly 450 objects are heading to auction this month. The collection reveals the "Twin Peaks" director's restless creativity ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...