Tumbleweeds may be iconic symbols of the American West, but regions around the world have their own versions of the wind-blown plants — even Antarctica.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is calling this unusual siting a “Turducken” of sorts, as it “combines two of the Bay's most beloved critters,” blue crabs and oysters.
It's been around 11,000 years since giant ground sloths roamed North America, but evidence of one of them recently surfaced in Los Angeles, during excavation for a transit project managed by the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The rotting corpse of a 50-foot-long dead sea creature, possibly with tusks, washed up on a beach in Indonesia last week — freaking out people and launching a global guessing game to determine what, exactly, the floating carcass used to be, according to The Washington Post.
The Kepler space telescope , NASA's dedicated exoplanet hunter, has provided a new look at the gas giant Neptune, and the observations could reveal more about much farther worlds that lie outside our solar system.
According to a new study, more and more Americans venturing out into the country’s wild places in search of peace and quiet and realizing that the woods, mountains, canyons and other natural wonders aren’t so peaceful or quiet anymore.
American history, pre-history, and ecology all in one I once had a colleague, an expat, who preferred everything about his home country to the United States.