The young marines transmitted top secret military messages using their native language. It was an undercover mission that ...

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Studies show parents are more likely to have bigger families when kids are the same gender, creating patterns that look biological—but may be behavioral.

Young puffins have to leave their burrows alone, without the help of their parents, and find the ocean. Every year, local Icelanders set out to help.

During the mid-20th century, the National Park Service launched the Mission 66 initiative: a bold plan to ditch rustic "Parkitecture" and go modern. It took decades for parkgoers to warm up to the ...

Mexico's $30 billion Tren Maya railway was built to unite the country and honor ancient Maya sites. Now that it’s up and ...

The new fossil was unearthed in a remote part of Argentinian Patagonia—and had teeth comparable to a T. rex, says National ...

In the late 1800s archaeologists pinpointed the location of Taxila, one of the greatest religious and cultural sites on the ...

Offering everything from safety to sisterhood, all-female travel is on the rise — and the trend could reshape the industry.

As the popularity of K-dramas has gone global, so have the filming locations of these shows—and fans are jetting across the ...

Nearly a century of prohibition in the Faroe Islands couldn't extinguish one family's brewing tradition. At their remote ...

Skies can turn from clear blue to pitch black as a haboob rolls in. Here’s how this wall of dust forms, and what health ...