A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras ...

A new exhibition at the Louvre takes visitors on a visual journey, exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the ...

During World War II, the crew of the Zaida were among the everyday Americans who risked their lives watching out for enemy ...

Experts on the hunt for the queen's tomb believe that they’ve found a small bust of her—but not everyone agrees ...

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 ...

Four decades after the fall of Argentina’s dictatorship, a fight over the country’s darkest chapter is reopening grievous ...

The five sets of tracks represent four-legged sauropods and a three-toed carnivore that might have crossed paths on a ...