Beall Woods State Park gives you that answer. This special place protects one of Illinois’s last old-growth forests. These ...

The entrance promises adventure, and unlike most promises these days, this one actually delivers on every level. Photo credit: theDSsucks Here’s something you don’t hear every day: there’s a ...

I love sports, geography, history, art and goofy stuff, and high school mascots blend a bit of all of that. I’ve combed ...

These 20 animals are so strange they look like science fiction creations, but they’re completely real. Nature is far more bizarre than you think.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.

The head-burying myth may have stemmed from the way ostriches have to bend down to dig their nests. When ostriches are faced with an actual problem (a predator), they can flatten themselves against ...