A commercial fisherman nabbed a large male Chinese mitten crab in the lower Columbia River late last month, putting ...

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After discovering the 15-pound cache while hiking in the Czech Republic, the two men handed it over to a local museum ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

After Paloma’s mother, the French painter Françoise Gilot, split with Picasso in the 1950s, she wrote a memoir about the ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

Artworks by the Latvian-American Abstract Expressionist have been damaged before, but repairs have added up to hundreds of ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...