Visitors come ashore on Santa Cruz Island, one of the five Channel Islands.

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The Channel Islands are home to rocky cliffs, sandy beaches, wildlife – and very few visitors, finds Ellie Seymour ...

This quartet of new and newly expanded museums around the globe should provide all the enticement you need for a cultural ...

Around 400 million years ago, Earth’s oceans were dominated by massive sea scorpions. Scorpions, as we know them today, are already pretty terrifying — now imagine them being larger than basketball ...

For nature enthusiasts, Fenwick Island State Park offers excellent bird-watching opportunities throughout the year. The ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

From a distance, they look like tiny white dots floating on the sea. But get closer, and you’ll see people sitting on ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a ...

As dawn breaks on calm days, hundreds of fishermen set sail in their unusual rafts, known as “corchos” (or corks), along the ...

Found in deserts, its venom causes intense pain, fever, and convulsions, and can be fatal for children and the elderly. One ...