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As Valentine's Day approaches, we take a look at monogamy and its alternatives among animals — including humans.

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it.

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole.

The curmudgeonly sports commentator is pessimistic about the sport's prospects in the U.S.

She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.

People in the South keep hoping for a white Christmas, even though they know chances for snow are very very slim.

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.

Disgraced, stripped of royal titles and now jailed. King Charles' brother Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. He denies wrongdoing.

Among the cattle ranches and stretches of desert of Eastern Nevada, there aren't a lot of social events. But there is a full moon hike every month in the tiny town of Baker.