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These treats have a surprisingly long history.

The race is on to save St. Mark's—and its marble—from damaging, salty floodwaters.

On the Arabian Peninsula, Jubbah holds clues to how humans adapted in the past.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Here’s why it’s really, really hard to count how many of the apex predators once stalked Earth’s surface.

An analysis of the 10-foot-long appendages shows that as the Arctic warms, narwhal diets are changing, and their bodies are accumulating more mercury.

The leafy greens are very much alive.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Remains hidden with this Swedish “founding father” likely belonged to his grandson, but questions linger.

Volcanologists are doing detective work to understand what makes St. Vincent's La Soufrière go off.

Found in an empty tomb, these sweets have staying power.

Landlubbers are very welcome.

The population is healthy overall, but a mysterious contagion has researchers looking for answers.

What to do when you have 20-foot-tall busts of nearly every U.S. president and nowhere to put them?

Thanks to nostalgia, the literary legacy of the USSR has a long afterlife.

The Back River remains visually distinct from its tributary, the Hayes River, for several miles after their confluence.

And partnering with a distillery to resurrect one.