What, you've never heard of the Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede?

It has been trying to get rid of them for years, to no avail.

It was as though it were seeking vengeance against cars.

It's filled with old issues of the "Chicago Reader."

What researchers have learned from tracking 57,000 individual "baboon decisions."

After a beached humpback was buried in the sand, the sharks started coming.

This weekend, the New York Transit Museum will trot out vintage vehicles from every era.

Prior to WWII, Americans didn't think much of softcover books.

The only way to know if blimping works it to try it for yourself.

Peter Coffin's "Untitled (Tree Pants)" is both silly and serious.

Matt Whitaker, the new world-record holder, shares his secrets.

It's all about promoting the use of Chamorro, the island's native language.

A common phrase with a long, deceptive history.

“We ordered a bridge to go from one side to the other. It doesn’t do that.”

Vincenzo Lunardi's first flight over London featured two caged pigeons, an airsick cat, and a lot of solo drinking.

Or a deer. Or a goat. It's all happening at the Great Salt Lick Contest in Baker City, Oregon.

In a world increasingly shaped by humans, having an extra sense can sometimes do more harm than good.

"My only sense of feeling comes in the form of cookies," says the long-distance swimmer Elizabeth Fry.

They have a genetic condition called leucism, which makes their coats pale and ghostly.

Transportation and rescue kittens—what could be better?

Start counting backward from 100.

The 79-year-old fish is making it through the Eagle Creek Fire.

In the Florida Keys, researchers have found an important new way to estimate what's been lost.

They're looking for remnants of the fireball that burned up over their province this past weekend.