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Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea...

When Mount Vesuvius obliterated the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D., it preserved the bodies of about 2,000 victims, freezing them in their final moments....

Brazil's massive Pantanal is a land of extreme contrasts, ruled by dramatic cycles of torrential rain and arid heat. At the peak of the dry season,...

Enter the harsh and unforgiving Kalahari and follow a lion pride attempt to save their threatened bloodline.

Spend three years in China's remote and inhospitable Tibetan Plateau, home to nearly all the world's snow leopards.

In Austria, he was known as an art collector and idealist. In Mexico, he was a colonialist aggressor responsible for thousands of deaths. And in...

The history of the people and the planes that first broke the speed barrier in 1947 and the impact it has had on aviation and how we fly today.

The uncommon sight of polar bears wandering a colorful landscape during an iceless summer in Hudson Bay, Canada.

Ascension Island, a remote Mid-Atlantic outpost famous for its big game fishing, is under siege. Tiger sharks, hammerheads, even great whites, lured...

A colorful portrait of Uganda's gamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a place where orphaned and rescued chimpanzees - victims of the illegal exotic pet...

ohn McClane may be a work of fiction, but the cyber-attacks in "Live Free or Die Hard" are scarily close to reality.

In November 19, 1946, a U.S. military transport plane goes out of control while flying over the Swiss Alps and crashes high in the mountains....

Peek at the first hours of three tiger cubs to their first swim at the National Zoo.