This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

A new study released by scientists from Brisbane, Australia on January 22 shows how a 'free-living' jellyfish-like coral called the Cycloseris cyclolites propels itself along the seabed to navigate ...

If you have a whopper of a story that happened to you, and you could use $100, then get on the stage, grab the mic and tell ...

Low-maintenance, elegant and available in a variety of colours, it's easy to see why orchids are such a popular houseplant.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture is proposing the eradication of an invasive moth species in two areas in ...

A while back, Reddit user No_Camera29 asked, "What's a creepy fact you wish you never learned?" and people had some super disturbing responses that we wrote about here. Now we're back for more creepy ...

Put on your headphones. In today's episode, host Emily Kwong leads us on a night hike in Patuxent River State Park in Maryland. Alongside a group of naturalists led by Serenella Linares, we'll meet a ...

A hummingbird moth can easily be mistaken for a hummingbird because it looks and acts similar. Learn what makes these sphinx ...

Samples can be easily transported back and forth, which came in handy last summer when Sierra identified the box tree moth caterpillar in a sample from a 300-year-old boxwood sent in by a homeowner.

Below are 14 facts about Pompeii. Pompeii is situated about 14 miles southeast of Naples in the Campania region of southern Italy. The settlement was built on fertile lava terraces at the bottom ...

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Greenland is the world’s largest island, but it’s not as big the Mercator map would have us believe. The widely reproduced map, created in 1569, suggests Greenland is roughly the same size as ...