In the film Seven Years in Tibet, Brad Pitt portrayed Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, who in 1944 attempted to climb ...

Star dunes - sometimes called pyramid dunes - stand out among sand dunes for their towering height and eye-catching form.

Venture beyond Guatemala’s famed Maya ruins at Tikal and you’ll find family-run museums and communities preserving age-old ...

There are 51 projects receiving grants from the state of Michigan with the goal of expanding access to healthy food in the ...

L.A. fires burned dozens of trails, including several local favorites. Consider hiking one of these. Hopefully, you'll find a ...

Archaeologists deconstructed these monumental ancient graves scattered across the desert of eastern Africa and found several ...

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From the desert of New Mexico to the clifftops of Guernsey, artists have found inspiration in all sorts of places. Here are ...

NOVA: When Whales Could Walk Wednesday, April 2 at 9:00 pm In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls ...

With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like a bizarre ...

The skeleton recovered was incomplete as it didn't have a skull and legs, but the arms and hands were well-preserved.

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose two-fingered ...