The spotlight returns to Gobbler's Knob in western Pennsylvania every Feb. 2, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney ...

Some towns gain reputations that follow them for years. Visiting in person can reveal a more complicated reality. This video ...

This is the most sold candy for a reason—simple, iconic, and wildly addictive, with a flavor that keeps people coming back ...

DinoLand USA, the prehistoric attraction has been part of Disney World's Animal Kingdom since it opened in 1998, is closing forever on Feb. 1.

Giant stick insects are some of the most expensive insects to purchase, as they're incredibly fascinating and fragile.

Known as "Il Principe," a boy unearthed in northern Italy's Arene Candide Cave in 1942 was killed by a bear nearly 28,000 ...

A strange, armor-plated fish surfacing in a local pond has left officials stunned — and raised alarm about what it could mean ...

A double burial found in southern Italy more than 60 years ago has just yielded a striking new secret: ancient DNA has confirmed a rare inherited form of dwarfism in a teenage girl who lived around 12 ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from the Arctic. Picture of Krista McGrath analyzing one of the harpoons that ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...