HAVING A BALL: Designed for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, a fiberglass boat shaped like a soccer ball ...

Christmas Island red crabs are famous throughout Australia and the world for their bright red color and for their spectacular annual migration to the sea. Millions of crabs become rivers of red as ...

Curie continued to rack up impressive achievements for women in science. In 1906, she became the first woman physics professor at the Sorbonne. In 1909, she was given her own lab at the University of ...

The Egyptians working on the pyramids are helping create a culture that will last more than 3,000 years—it will be one of the longest-lasting civilizations in the world. During that time, ancient ...

Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in rural Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers who worked on a farm picking cotton for ...

Find out why these common animal myths aren't true. Animals do some pretty strange things. Giraffes clean their eyes and ears ...

Known as “America’s wolf,” red wolves are the only species of wolf that lives in the United States—and nowhere else.

To George Washington Carver, peanuts were like paintbrushes: They were tools to express his imagination. Carver was a ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is bordered by Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro, and has a narrow stretch of land along the Adriatic Sea.

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snakes in the world, are best known for the way they catch and eat their food. The snake uses its sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize prey, and then coils its ...