Dinosaur fossil hunters have found a "very good" Tyrannosaurus rex on a Montana ranch. Not content to announce their finds after the expedition, they're inviting the world to follow the dig as it happens, online.
As the blockbuster Brad Pitt film Troy storms the cinemas, archaeologists and historians are shedding light on the ancient city and epic that inspired the movie.
Adventurer Nick Middleton traveled to malarial, crocodile-infested swamps of Indonesia to see how tribes or tree house dwellers and island-builders survive the great muck. (A related story airs Sunday, May 16, on our U.S. cable television program Going to Extremes: Swamp.
Bloodsucking bedbugs are sneaking back between the sheets some 50 years after being all but wiped out in the developed world, a new study says. The insects are sweeping cities across North America, Western Europe and Australia.
Brood X has arrived. Are you ready? Billions of black, shrimp-size bugs with transparent wings and beady red eyes are beginning to carpet trees, buildings, poles, and just about anything else vertical in the U.S. from the eastern seaboard west through Indiana and south to Tennessee.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a "living" museum where one can see about 40 species of Southwestern birds at all times. The walk-in aviary, about the size of a football field, enables photographers to get up close to birds such as the Inca dove, hooded oriole, pyrrhuloxia, and Gambel's quail.
A dramatic rise in poaching in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Garamba National Park is threatening to destroy the last wild population of northern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), conservationists warn.
Filled with larger-than-life heroes and epic battles,
the Icelandic sagas may be the most accessible of all medieval
literature and a source of inspiration to classic
authors like J.R.R. Tolkien.
More than a millennium ago, fierce power struggles raged between Maya kings in the city of Waka, deep in the Guatemalan jungle. Today, the city is once again under assault, this time from drug smugglers, cattle ranchers, and the impoverished farmers they hire as arsonists.
The early years of Maya civilization from 2,000 B.C. to A.D. 250 have often been dismissed as primitive. But recent discoveries by archaeologists in the Guatemala rain forest reveal a society that flourished centuries earlier than once thought.
A rafting team could soon join the select few to navigate the Nile River from its source to the sea. Traversing wild rapids and rebel-held territory en route, the paddlers recently crossed into Egypt and expect to reach the Mediterranean later this month.
Amateur treasure hunters who comb the muck along the River Thames in London are unearthing artifacts that shed new light on childhood during the Middle Ages. An exhibition of these finds, which include rare toy guns, figurines, and other miniature objects, will soon tour Britain.
Dieters take note: The billions of cicadas emerging from the ground in the eastern United States this month are high in protein, low in fat, and carbohydrate-free. Experts say the crunchy, vitamin-rich insects taste like asparagus.
Paris's Louvre Museum announced this week that the wood on which the Mona Lisa is painted is bending. Experts say the da Vinci painting's deterioration has aroused "some worry."
For four days this past February, approximately a hundred thousand people all over North America braved the winter chill to tally birds in their backyards. They reported their more than four million sightings online as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count.
