USA Info from Licensor: "I live on an island and was out on the boat at a local sandbar we always go to on the weekends. I was collecting shells that were on the sandbar, as I always do, and when I ...

The other day, nature educator Brianna Varner was walking on the beach when she saw what appeared to be an empty shell ...

The National Gallery of Art pairs art and science in a survey of some of the finest Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

In a world where everything is constantly changing, it’s amazing that some creatures have stayed almost the same for millions of years. These rare survivors, often called “living fossils,” have seen ...

Whatever happened to animal spirits ... and you can see why Shell chief executive officer Wael Sawan underscored the relative attractions of buying back his firm’s stock when asked about buying BP ...

Students from Brickett Elementary got a special presentation Tuesday, sponsored by Friends of Lynn and Nahant Beach, from ...

Sitting in front of a monitor with a technician from the Smithsonian, I am watching the progress of Turtle 4004, known as ...

Scales are small, hard plates that protect an animal's skin. Learn all about the 12 types of animals with scales here!

Director Dean Fleischer Camp delivers the same laughs and heart as 2002's 'Lilo & Stitch,' though his leads were more ...

“What was a fringe field back in the 1980s has turned into something ... When injected into animals with cancer, the liposomes would slip through the leaky vasculature of tumors, enter cells ...