The Muppets' "Pigs in Space" aside, before humans ventured into outer space, we sent up various animals to test whether space flight was survivable for humans.
In 1995, a pickup truck collided with a dump truck transporting monkeys, and the monkeys spilled out onto the street before some went completely missing.
Slavery has a long history in America, and its hard for teachers to cover everything. These are the New York slave rebellions you never learned about in school.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right when he wrote of the ocean, "Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." Drinking salty ocean water is not a good idea.
For decades, scientists have studied the wildlife living near the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. They know a lot about Chernobyl's animals, and it's not all rosy.
One thing all humans share is that our bodies include blood. That blood isn't always the same -- there are blood types that can't mix. How about dogs and cats?
There are some animals out there that live longer than humans. Let's take a look at creatures that, in terms of longevity, can put us humans into our graves.
A young man once decided to give away the millions that were in his trust fund to anyone who asked. Here's what happened to hippie millionaire Michael Brody Jr.
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has held true to her promise to give away much of the $46.7 billion she was worth at the time of her divorce.
Even when fossils are dscovered, the stories they tell aren't always the clearest. Here are some unique and curious features of these extinct animals explained.
Domestic cats love catnip, so much so that it changes their behavior when they're around it. But what would happen if you gave lions and jaguars catnip?
After Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, the world started seeing a lot more sunflowers. Here's the symbolism behind Ukraine's national flower explained.
Animals have a special penchant for stardom, sometimes capturing fans overnight. Here are some of the animals that have made headlines around the world.
Our dogs are always communicating with us in one form or another but it's important to look at your dog's body language to understand what they're feeling.
There are all kinds of ways to communicate -- body language, signs, handwriting. Human oral communication is important, of course -- do dogs use it, too?
Everyone has their preference when it comes to smaller vs. bigger dogs, but smaller dogs actually live longer than larger dogs. Here's why that happens.
A famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s resulted in the deaths of thousands upon thousands of people. Was it a deliberate creation of the Soviet government?
Shirley Temple was a preternaturally talented individual, a film star by the age of 3, then a career as a diplomat. And with a namesake, non-alcoholic drink.
The true rulers of Earth are not humans but plants. And some plant ancestors were involved in Earth's mass extinctions. Imagine if some were around today.
The English language has a knack for using the same word to describe different things. The word orange is a perfect example. Did the fruit or color come first?
The majority of earth's surface is ocean, but more than 80% of it has never been explored by humans. Here are some things we know about the bottom of the ocean.