These fascinating science facts prove that reality is often stranger—and a lot more interesting—than fiction These ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

No, there are no actual hippos in Hippo, Kentucky. The name of this town comes from one of its twentieth-century residents, ...

The Verde Canyon Railroad in Clarkdale, Arizona offers a four-hour journey that feels like traveling through the pages of National Geographic, except you’re not just looking at the pictures – you’re ...

Prophetstown State Park in West Lafayette is that kind of delightful surprise – a sprawling 2,000-acre natural wonderland ...

Discover the incredible world of rare and exotic animals with these 25 fascinating facts! From the elusive snow leopard's ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

A thick, honey-like adhesive at the tip of a chameleon’s tongue lets it bring its prey to its mouth after snagging it, ...

Phuket, Mexico City, Willamette Wine Country in Oregon and South Africa’s Kruger National Park are among the places that ...