Egg season is here and by that we mean eggs coloured in bright pastels, ready to be buried and hunted, and if they are ...

Why didn’t people just combine blue and red ... as 1200 B.C.—was made by extracting mucus from snails found along the Mediterranean Sea through an expensive, labor-intensive process.

Beginning around 3000 years ago, Tel Shiqmona in modern-day Israel was a major centre for the production of Tyrian purple, a ...

Blind cavefish and crayfish live in the cave system just north of Hoosier National Forest. These translucent creatures ...

Snails and mollusks may not inspire us like bald eagles or blue whales or ... and flows quietly toward the sea. Michelle Nijhuis has written about aspen trees and Walden Pond for Smithsonian.

Wildlife in the area includes some species you might expect in West Virginia—white-tailed deer leave delicate tracks in soft ...

The Acorn TV May 2025 schedule includes Harry Wild, The Brokenwood Mysteries, Murdoch Mysteries, The One That Got Away, and more.

There’s a stretch of Virginia coastline so pristine and untouched that it belongs on the cover of a travel magazine, yet somehow it remains one of the commonwealth’s best-kept secrets. False Cape ...

Aboard the RSV Nuyina, a team of Australian researchers is exploring the Southern Ocean. Their mission is to study the ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...