This book not only brings you folk stories, myths and details of local and cultural beliefs about these animals, but also information about the roles they play in shaping modern pop-culture and ...

There’s a stretch of road in Ohio where time slows down, not because of traffic, but because beauty demands your attention. The Wally Road Scenic Byway winds through Loudonville’s countryside like a ...

Everyone has seen the classic horror film where the token Black person—specifically the Black guy—dies first. But Black ...

Reindeer are such icons of Christmas that today they pull sleighs through shopping malls. But these beautiful animals were one of the earliest animals to be domesticated, and the relationship between ...

America's culinary heritage has been heavily influenced by other cuisines, so it's not especially easy to define exactly what ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Discover more about the special animals that each of the 50 states chose, their conservation status, and their significance.

A study of Neanderthal bones has unearthed evidence of 'light, selective' cannibalism targeting women and girls around 40,000 ...

Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of this iconic species. A new proposal to restrict international trade under CITES could offer them a lifeline.

New research suggests that the pressures of contemporary life may be pushing human biology into unfamiliar territory, activating ancient physiological systems in ways they were never meant to operate.

Thermopolis, Wyoming sits nestled in the Bighorn Basin like nature’s own spa retreat, except it’s an actual functioning town where real people live real lives. This community of roughly 3,000 ...

During the Middle Ages, there were thousands of ethnic tribes across the world. A lot of these larger groups are well known to us, like the Vikings, the Franks, the Anglo-Saxons and the Mongols. But ...