In the 1760s, powerful men in the American colonies were in danger. The working class people beneath them were sick of the corruption and bullying, and were ready to rebel. All they needed was a ferocious leader willing to take on the fight. Herman Husban...

You share a trait with every single human who's ever lived – but no other animal on Earth has it. It's not your big brain, or your opposable thumbs... it's actually this little shelf on your face that we call a chin. And here's the thing: we're not total...

This Christmas, many children welcomed a familiar visitor – a jolly man in a red suit and a sleigh full of gifts.

Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy cat towers over buildings, roaming the snowy countryside for human victims who have yet to...

The Natural History Museum’s iconic diorama halls feature over 75 detailed habitats, from arctic tundra to tropical rainforest.

A forgotten family story is illuminated when a North Carolina staffer uncovers the origins of the Strauss chandelier, a gift from a Jewish family who escaped Nazi persecution. Through letters, memories and a rare survivor interview, this film traces their...

Of course, the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing, but we haven’t found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes? Well, it turns out that some of our b...

We used to have BILLIONS of these extraordinary trees. Thanks to a tragic twist of fate, now… there are only 4.

There are only two accepted representations of William Shakespeare that are considered “official” – but could a portrait that has been hanging over a family’s mantelpiece for the last 50 years be the third? British window washer Steven Wadlow, whose fathe...

66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just four decades, we’ve gone from not knowing there was a space rock at all to knowing exactly where that planet-killer came from.

Color in Motion explores the power of color as a filmmaking tool, the science and technologies behind it, and its impact on audiences.

A previously unknown work by one of the great French impressionists has come to light and will soon go on the auction block.

It would be a lot easier to study the science of dreaming if we weren’t asleep every time we did it. Why do we dream? What does dreaming do for our brains? How did dreaming evolve? Here’s a look at the current theories from psychology and neuroscience

Explore the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke on Roanoke Island—how a 1587 English settlement vanished, the carved clue “CROATOAN,” and fresh archaeological evidence suggesting the settlers may have joined local tribes rather than simply “disappearing.”

With under 40 pupfish left in the wild, these are possibly the rarest fish on the planet. The Devils Hole pupfish have existed in isolation for thousands of years in an extreme environment where few species could survive. How did they end up in such an in...