This week: hurricane forecast downgraded, birds set migration record, elephants avoid going uphill, blond and brunette mammoths, and more.

A third of U.S. adults believe evolution is "absolutely false," according to international surveys that put the U.S. next to last among Western nations in acceptance of Darwin's theory.

The latest Samuel L. Jackson horror movie Snakes on a Plane slithers into cinemas on August 18. Go behind the scenes and get the facts with our roundup of snake news, photos, and videos.

Take a virtual tour of the first public exhibition of ancient Egyptian relics found underwater near the port city of Alexandria.

Many of Cuba's wetlands, forests, and reefs remain unspoiled. The reason, experts say: Cuban President Fidel Castro's environmental policies—and the island's economic isolation.

With Fidel Castro's health uncertain, get a rare glimpse of what life has been like in Cuba during the Communist leader's reign.

This week: medieval psalmbook found in bog, DDT returns, giant dino found, Mideast conflict harms animals, inside Hezbollah, "half baked" lobster caught, and more.

Global warming may be a worldwide buzz kill, but it hasn't stopped canny entrepreneurs from launching a new beer brewed with water melted from Greenland's ice cap.

Eureka! Lost works by the ancient scholar have been recovered from a much battered medieval manuscript using x-rays from a particle accelerator.

Go on a snake hunt in Sweetwater, Texas, and find out why the town's quirky spring festival has some reptile experts rattled.

Read excerpts from a podcast interview with the first Western photojournalist to gain access to the militant Islamic group in five years.

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Join National Geographic on a 2002 assignment to explore Fidel Castro's Cuba, which has been closed to U.S. visitors for decades.

Cesar Millan, star of the hit TV series Dog Whisperer, takes on his detractors and talks about his training methods in a recent interview.

This week: bouncing 'bots proposed for Mars, prehistoric marrow discovered, opening the moon for business, inside Hezbollah, house cat chases bear, and more.

Doomsayers fear that a thousand-year-old prayer book found in Ireland predicts chaos in the Middle East. But the real meaning of the find, experts say, was literally lost in translation.