Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

The third largest U.S. state, California is No. 1 when it comes to giant redwood and sequoia trees, the Pacific Ocean and ...

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" documented the killings of a family of four in rural Kansas on this day in 1959 ...

To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967 ...

A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...

November's spectacle closes out a series of four big and bright full moons that have captivated sky watchers since late ...

The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...

The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

Staffers at the Dorchester County Historical Society in Maryland were baffled by the unusual machine, so they asked the ...

However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this ...