Graphic by Chris Panicker We’re midway through the summer, which means that several marquee music festivals have come and ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

If you're looking for something fun to do this summer, we have not one, not two but six zoos in several cities across the ...

The scorching sun of the Iberian Peninsula beat down on Mad Cool’s massive crowds yesterday, turning seasoned music fans into pools of melted mush. Luckily, though, a stacked line-up of world-beating ...

Imagine waking up to the sound of rain, only to find your favorite local park transformed into a vast, shimmering lake.

That’s Shawnee National Forest for you—a sprawling 289,000-acre paradise tucked away in southern Illinois near Herod that somehow remains one of America’s most underrated natural wonders.

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you’re picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “slender” fingers near a temple in India and discovered a new species, study said. Photo from A. Sayyed via Sayyed, Das, Amarasinghe, Bhattacharjee and ...

The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils ...

Before we leave our discussion of the joys of summer, tribute should be paid to that miracle of climatic adaptation, the Sonoran Desert Stick Lizard.

There are at least four good reasons to visit Fairfield and its next door neighbor Suisun City: Go karting, jelly beans, ...