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

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

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

Hobbyist diver Dom Robinson jumped at the chance to purchase the S.S. "Almond Branch," a cargo ship that's been resting 190 ...

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

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A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art showcases the longtime cultural meaning in the practice of chanoyu ...