The collection includes illustrations of basilisks, mandrakes, and bezoars.Anne Garner, the curator of rare books and manuscripts at the academy, is well aware of the similarities. But she didn’t realize just how deep they ran until stumbling upon a [...]

Total strangers have made one 20-year-old’s daily commute a heck of a lot easier.A generous group of people in Rockwall, Texas, surprised Justin Korva ― whom many of them had never even met ― with a Toyota Camry on[...]

A new kind of genetic analysis revealed that Macrauchenia was more akin to an ancient placental order known as Perissodactyla that includes horses, rhinos and tapirs. "We had a difficult problem to solve here," said lead author of the new study [...]

A nurse on board who assisted said "he just popped out, literally, so we just kind of like caught him" MIAMI -- A baby born mid-flight from Fort Lauderdale to Dallas Saturday night is now continuing his journey west with his family, only [...]

Madrid has asked Paris to lend it the title of "City of Love" as it hosts WorldPride 2017, one of the biggest celebrations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.  And the French capital has said[...]

The 36-year-old realtor devotes much of her free time to finding Forrest Fenn's buried treasure.An estimated 65,000 fortune hunters have participated in the hunt for the chest of gold planted by Forrest Fenn and it has twice turned[...]

Eating a tasty meal with chana dal or doenjang washed down with a gin daisy could well foster a nice feeling of hygge. Just hope you don't find any zyzzyva on your plate. If you need to look up any of those words, the unofficial custodian of the [...]

Actor gave cheeky grin from behind as fan Chris Simmons snapped pic with Hollywood star.Uploading the snap to Instagram, a shocked yet clearly delighted Mr Simmons wrote alongside it: "When you get your photo with Brad Pitt photobombed by Bradley[...]

Mayor Brynn is the forth canine mayor Rabbit Hash, Ky., has elected in a town fundraiser. This Kentucky town has gone to the dogs.Meet Brynneth Pawltrow, a rescue pit bull that is making strides in Rabbit Hash as their latest town mayor.The pup,[...]

The five pals have been vacationing at the same California campsite since graduating from high school. A group of five friends have been going on vacation together and posing for the same photo every five years since 1982.They started the[...]

Honestly, this is not just a story about a lion learning to roar. Because as I was working on this, I came across an even better big cat making noises video. Here’s a baby lion, learning to roar. It’s incredibly[...]

Dutch police are looking for the owner of a stray wallaby which made an unexpected appearance in a small town over the weekend, disrupting rail traffic before finally being lassoed by a local. Trains near Staphorst in the northern Netherlands were[...]

Palaeontologists hope the rare discovery of a dinosaur fossil with its stomach contents intact on an outback Queensland sheep station could determine what sauropods ate.The most complete sauropod skeleton ever found in the southern hemisphere is[...]

A 14-year-old Japanese player of the traditional chess-like board game of shogi has captured the nation's heart by winning a record straight 29 matches, breaking a record held for 30 years. Sota Fujii, who trains himself with computer software[...]

Soon-to-be mom Hillary Hinrichs explained the cake's crude message was part of a running joke in the family. This soon-to-be grandmother got the surprise of her life when her rude birthday treat actually contained news of her daughter’s[...]