In 1968, a Minnesota insurance salesman named Ralph Plaisted was sitting in a bar, talking to a friend about snowmobiles. His friend said that if snowmobiles were so great, he should be able to ride ...

Moved to Boston, where he took a job appraising buildings for an insurance company. Became so fascinated with the buildings’ designs that he decided he would become an architect. Enrolled at the ...

Millions have seen the heart-wrenching video of a polar bear clinging to life, its white hair limply covering its thin, bony frame. Shot by Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier of the nonprofit ...

Byrd returned from the first-ever flight to the North Pole in 1926 ... or caused him to overshoot the pole by as much as 21 statute miles. As he wrote in the Polar Record paper: "This type ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

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