Filmmaker Bertie Gregory's new documentary special captures the extreme challenges facing the world's fastest land animal.

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

If you've never been on safari before, this Tanzanian park - home to big cats, elephants and antelopes galore - is a great ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

A new book argues that the mother of Jesus was a powerhouse in her own right. Madonna and Child, c.1485 (oil on wood) by Giovanni Bellini, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.