Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...

The Lubbock Lake Landmark covers about 13,000 years of local history. Here's how you can see active excavations this summer ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

While working at Google, Claire Stapleton cracked the code for generating corpspeak with personality. Then she lost faith in ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go somewhere when we’re indoors. If the idea of skin dust isn’t sitting well ...

His fur is uniquely spotted and striped, and his silent gait is reminiscent of a shadow in the thicket: The ocelot is one of ...

Self-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly ...

The long fangs of Smilodon were thought to be rather delicate, but a study of large herbivore remains from Argentina shows ...

Florida is tightening requirements to import sloths into the state, an action spurred by controversy over Sloth World, a never-opened Orange County attraction linked to the deaths of at least 55 of ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is working to finalize an executive order to temporarily prohibit the importation of sloths into the state of Florida for 60 ...

Most people will be well acquainted with osteoporosis, the condition in which bone density deteriorates to the point where people are at risk of fractures and breaks from minor injuries. Yet few may ...

Follow WTOP’s Matt Kaufax as he explores hidden gems, local landmarks and unique stories across the D.C. area every week. New episodes of WTOP’s “Matt About Town” segment are released each Tuesday and ...