High on upper Ruth Glacier, the Sheldon Mountain House (background) shelters tourists and climbing expeditions. In 1980 Mount ...

Lee Berger is an award winning paleoanthropologist who has spent 30 years exploring human origins in Africa, Asia and ...

Polo ponies, palace hotels and oysters on ice: the Snow Polo World Cup St Moritz returns every January for two days of ...

From bouillabaisse to panisse, distinctive dishes help to define France’s largest and most vibrant port city. Here’s where to ...

"Uncle." He said he had heard that there were children among the dead, and for that reason he had no choice but to turn ...

Seventeen years ago photographer David Doubilet was enchanted by a Pacific reef. He recently returned to see if that ...

Yosemite National Park boasts bobcats, black bears, spotted owls, and kingsnakes. The park is also home to an arachnid called the Yosemite Cave Pseudoscorpion. This animal, which resembles a scorpion, ...

Fossils have shown that the earliest dinosaurs lived about 230 million years ago and were only about the size of today’s ...

Lemurs may be one of the cutest animals on Earth, but sadly they're also the most endangered. Threatened by illegal logging ...

Scientists sampled the blood of wild anteaters and tapirs in the Brazilian Pantanel—and made a few surprising finds about ...

Among those cells is a newly identified rare subtype of neuron potentially associated with the genetic risk of developing ...

Years of mining hallowed the ground beneath Maceió, Brazil. As the place sinks, those who’ve stayed confront the surreal ...