An Elephant's Trunk Is Covered in Whiskers—and They're Unlike Those on Any Other Animal, a New Study Suggests

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These Emily Carr Paintings Will Make You Experience the Beauty of British Columbia's Landscapes in a Completely New Way

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Five Things to Know About 'Wuthering Heights,' Author Emily Brontë's Only Novel

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Will a Dazzling Display of Wildflowers Spread Across California This Spring?

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Earth's Core Might Hold Dozens of Oceans Worth of Hydrogen, Hinting at the Origins of the Planet's Vast Water Supply

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Seabird Poop May Have Fueled This Pre-Inca Kingdom's Rise to Power in South America

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A Metal Detectorist Unearthed This Heart-Shaped Tudor Pendant. Now, the British Museum Has Raised Millions to Put It on Public Display

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Gallop Into the Year of the Horse With These Five Amazing Equine Discoveries

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Commemorate Presidents’ Day With 15 Images That Celebrate the Founding Fathers

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Why a Marine Ecologist Was Thrilled to See a Critically Endangered Bird Very Far From Home

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Archaeology Students Unearth an Early Medieval Burial Pit During a Training Dig in England

A Football-Size Creature That Lived 307 Million Years Ago May Have Been One of the First Land Vertebrates to Eat Plants

You Can Buy a Rare Broadside Copy of the Declaration of Independence From July 1776

A Massive Monkey Research Center Might Turn Into a Primate Sanctuary. Animal Activists Rejoice, While Scientists Worry

Norman Rockwell's Painting of the Crestfallen Chicago Cubs Is Now on View at the Art Institute of Chicago

Scientists Say They May Have Found a Long-Lost Lunar Lander—the First to Successfully Touch Down on the Moon 60 Years Ago

This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

How the Easy-Bake Oven, an Appliance That Allowed Kids to Heat Treats With a Light Bulb, Revolutionized the Toy Industry

Feeling More Hate Than Love This Valentine's Day? Send Snarky 'Vinegar Valentines' to Your Enemies Like the Victorians Did

The Tragedy of the Alps’ Disappearing Glaciers for Those Who Live, Visit and Ski There

Ice Fishermen Catch Record-Breaking 244-Pound Atlantic Halibut After Hours-Long Struggle

Have We Reached the Final Days of the Mass-Market Paperback?

A Gray Wolf Visited Los Angeles County for the First Time in a Century, Marking a Major Milestone in the Species' Recovery

The U.S.'s Only Particle Collider Recreated Moments From the Early Universe. Now, It Has Closed—to Make Way for a New Instrument

An Asteroid Ended the Age of the Dinosaurs. But How Did Their Reign Begin? Mysterious Early Reptiles May Hold the Answer

Archaeologists Say They've Identified Traces of a 2,000-Year-Old Love Note Still Etched Into a Wall in Ancient Pompeii

Your Daily Coffee Might Be Protecting Your Brain From Dementia, a New Study Suggests

You Can Stay in Catherine Earnshaw's Bright Pink Bedroom, Straight Out of the New 'Wuthering Heights' Movie

Jewel Thieves Dropped This Crushed Crown as They Fled the Louvre. Now, the Historic Headdress Will Be Restored to Its Former Glory

When Human Activity Dropped During Covid-19, Methane Emissions Surprisingly Spiked. Now, a Study Points to Two Reasons Why

This Scientist Brewed and Drank His Own 'Vaccine Beer' to Combat a Dangerous Virus. It Seems to Have Worked

How a Little-Known French Region Safeguarded the Louvre's Treasures During World War II

Masked Thieves Steal Statue of British Boxer Teddy Baldock From a London Park, Leaving Only His Boots Behind

Testing Menstrual Blood for HPV Might Provide a Less Invasive Way to Screen for Cervical Cancer, a New Study Suggests

A White Historian Claimed That Black People 'Had No History.' This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise

These Parasitic Beetles Mimic the Smell of Flowers So They Can Trick Bees and Raid Their Nests, New Research Suggests

Physicists Create Homemade Cosmic Dust, Which Could Help Them Figure Out How the Building Blocks of Life First Reached Earth

Rumors Suggested That Anne Boleyn Was a Witch With Six Fingers. Did This Elizabethan Artist Rework a Portrait of the Tudor Queen to Debunk the Gossip?

This Carved, Painted Zapotec Tomb Is Mexico's Most Important Archaeological Discovery in a Decade

The National Gallery of Art Acquires 17th-Century Masterpiece by Baroque Painter Artemisia Gentileschi

These Lazy Bats Are Super-Efficient Killers That Carefully Conserve Energy to Attack at a Moment's Notice

An Asteroid Might Slam Into the Moon in 2032—and Create a Fiery Flash That's Visible to Earthlings, New Research Suggests

One Was a Teenage Diplomat. Another Was a Nuclear Engineer. Here's How Eight Presidents Made Their Mark Outside of the White House

Hundreds of Tourists Flock to This Instagram-Famous Italian Church Every Day. Locals Are Pushing Back Against Visitors Who Seek the Perfect Photo 'at All Costs'

See a Rare, Bus-Sized Giant Phantom Jelly Wade Through Ocean Waters Off the Coast of Argentina

What Is a Stoat? Learn Five Fun Facts About the Adorable Weasels Chosen as the Olympic Mascots

See the Beauty of Corals, Beehives, Mushrooms and More in These 11 Images From the Close-Up Photographer of the Year Awards

Ron Teasley, Pioneering Baseball Player and One of Two Surviving Negro League Veterans, Dies at 99

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