Coiled in self-defence, this armoured creature – the armadillo girdled lizard – turns its body into a formidable fortress to ...

That these seals can live to healthy old age is remarkable. Humans once hunted them rapaciously for their sweet, sweet oil.

Santa Monicans near Ocean Avenue spent the Thanksgiving holiday in a state of chaos and confusion over the mysterious ...

A festive favourite of Hugh Grant and Earl Spencer is handmade by 70-year-old Sally Barnes, Ireland's last wild-fish smoker.

Spain is best known for its golden coastlines and lively seaside towns, but beyond the sun-drenched beaches lies a rugged, untamed landscape that many travelers never get the chance to experience.

The animal kingdom can be rather unforgiving, but even the cutest animals have strange reasons to do some pretty gruesome ...

Horror books, by definition, are meant to keep you up a bit longer at night, wondering if the shadow outside your window is really the tree that has stood there ...

Ohio’s ancient sea monster, the Dunkleosteus terrelli, is revealed in new clarity by a recent study that shows just how ...

"It is unnecessarily hard on children," said the fatherly New York Times in a recent editorial, "to put before them sloppily written stories of impossible people in an ...

Weather plays a role in the flea market experience, as it does in all outdoor California adventures. On sunny days, the ...

Disney's long history contains a bunch of sci-fi movies worth watching that don't belong to Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, or ...

Rex lived closer in time to modern day humans than it did to a single Stegosaurus. This one always blows my mind." ...