The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...

Underwater archaeologists found a Roman breakwater made from recycled architectural fragments off the coast of Bacoli in ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

The natural history of Pliny (Volume 2) by Pliny, the Elder Publication date 1855 Topics Natural History Publisher London : Henry G. Bohn Collection usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

Explore the prehistoric and present-day natural worlds at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Visitors can immerse themselves in exhibits featuring dinosaur fossils, wildlife native to Georgia ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...