For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated ...

The Donkeys at the Museum event was created in partnership with the Donkey Breed Society, and features a display of purple ...

From WWII to the Jersey shore, find out the chilling details on some of the scariest shark attacks in history.

History isn’t all generals and politicians. Sometimes it’s a stray mutt or a pigeon with a mission that rewrites the script.

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

In one of its most unique episodes, Kings and Generals explores animals that altered the course of history. From Porphyrios, ...

Camouflage patterns are more than just designs, they are incredible tools of survival and deception used by military forces, ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the earliest known instance of animals emerging from the water to live on land ...

Some animals are so rare, they are more like myths than living, breathing organisms. Take the Upemba lechwe, for example.

A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at ...

A cast of a Deinosuchus, which lived 83.5 million years ago in the United States and was similar to modern alligators. They ...