There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

With a peninsula coming out of its side like a fishing hook, Massachusetts is easy to distinguish when viewed from space. Once one of the original 13 colonies before the founding of the United States, ...

Local experts are cautioning beachgoers to "share the shore" after a young elephant seal was found lounging on the Seaside ...

The Argentinian marine biologist and conservationist has spent the past 36 years championing the world’s penguins and their ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

Jacob Cooper spent a month on a small boat studying penguins off the coast of Antarctica. He shivered. He got seasick. It was ...

In Telangana, heavy rains and strong winds lashed Hyderabad and some other parts of the state yesterday. Chief Minister ...

The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is ...

"These are ritual objects made specifically for burials and brought from Greece," explained a former archaeologist now ...

In an unprecedented development, rabies has become endemic in Cape fur seals - the first documented case in marine mammals ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...