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Tromping through strange woods in stockings and heels? Why not!

A Massachusetts retiree has no idea why he got a strange payment from the feds.

Brick flowers never wilt.

Scientists filmed the six-legged soldiers carrying hurt ants home.

Bio-cremation techniques make burning the dead look old-fashioned. So what's stopping people from choosing it?

Between composing concertos, Joseph Bologne fenced and fought in the army.

Bioluminescence is the lingua franca of life in the seas, both shallow and deep.

The habit began last summer.

Some inmates went on an "illegal surfing spree."

Excluded from the men-only Explorers Club, they established their own group for adventurers.

When a Philadelphia construction company dug up an old cemetery, local archaeologists stepped in to help—because there was no one else.

Police were not happy with the driver.

The creator of the Box Tunnel built in a secret birthday present for himself.

The artist Yoshihiro Okada uses only whole, unbroken peels.

Ray Haroldsen didn't really notice anything was wrong.

Some archaeologists recently studied a lot of old bird bones.

Decoding the Doughboy, one of the first mass-produced memorials.

Be careful when you collect them.