While this quest may scare away arachnophobes, public donations of funnel-webs are critical to the mission of the Australian Reptile Park —the only place in Australia that milks Sydney funnel-webs, ...

The 50-pound penguin at Australia's Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is now roughly 9 months old and losing his downy fluff in favor of adult plumage. (Credit: Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium) Explore ...

The amphibians are at the mercy of mining operations that are destroying their ecosystems, but local communities throughout ...

The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming's innovation and forever changed ...

The marble bust was made by the celebrated sculptor Edmé Bouchardon nearly 300 years ago. After a small town purchased it in the 1930s, it was lost for decades Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The ...

After her detainment on this day in in 1872, Anthony was found guilty by a federal court. She refused to pay her "unjust" $100 fine ...

The massive global shortcut linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas took ten years to dig through the Isthmus of Suez and was built on the path of an ancient canal ...

Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...

Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Presents: “Jazz and the Armed Services” Note Location: Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.

A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and ...

The space agency’s chief health and medical officer refutes claims that Suni Williams, who is on the unexpectedly extended ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...