Despite being synonymous with Antarctica, only two of the 18 species of penguin can call the Antarctic continent their home: ...

The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is very critical of the false myths ...

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived ... perhaps even expanding further west into the southern Great Lakes ...

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...

Backcountry colonists in Camden and Long Bluff, South Carolina helped win the American Revolutionary War by declaring their ...

THIS FIERCE PEOPLE. By Alan Pell Crawford. Knopf. 400 pages. $32.50. One way to approach Alan Pell Crawford’s “This Fierce People” is to accept it for what it is — a potboiler from a ...

Whether you celebrate Halloween by reading ghost stories, with friends and family, or watching scary movies, we hope you have ...

Southern and eastern yellow jacket queens produce all caste members in the colony, and while mated queens from both species hibernate in the winter following the decline of their colonies ...

FISH-EATING spiders the size of human hands are on the loose in Britain – here’s a map revealing where colonies are lurking.

Canada and the United States are about as closely allied and economically integrated as any two countries can be, but that doesn’t mean everything’s always “A-Ok, Eh.” Here are some of the biggest ...

At midnight on June 11, 1940, Italy declared war on France. This was something that had been anticipated for some time, ...

I grew up all over eastern Iowa. My parents moved from place to place – Tipton, Lowden, Iowa City – before finally settling ...