“Urchin” lures, created in Japan, are all the rage in bass fishing. How did the tackle shop get its Beanie Baby moment?

An 1874 photograph taken in Washington, D.C., during a visit by a delegation of Utes from Colorado. (Courtesy of Denver ...

The recently shuttered immigrant detention facility continued a long tradition of using alligators in ways that have reinforced demeaning racial stereotypes.

Veteris is almost twice as old as Earth, and its lifeforms resist familiar categories such as plant, animal and fungus. Some ...

California’s beaches may be some of the most photographed and well-documented coastlines in the world, but just miles from ...

One surprise find was a new species of a clear jellyfish-related animal called the Erenna siphonophore. The animal was found ...

Shark Week bites into dinosaur times with a must-watch special for shark fans and dinosaur fans alike with “Jurassic Sharks” at 8 p.m. ET on Discovery. Viewers without cable can watch “Jurassic Sharks ...

After high-profile, militaristic immigration raids on Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities earlier in the year generated harsh political backlash, the Trump administration quietly shifted tactics ...

Several years ago, a family came to the United States and took up a terrifying new endeavor: Smuggling young, poor women from Central and South America into the country and forcing them into prostitut ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

Beloved Soho restaurant Lure Fishbar won’t sleep with the fishes after all. A deal with Prada, which has a much larger space in the building at 575 Broadway, saved the nearly quarter-century old ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...