The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is very critical of the false myths ...

Despite being synonymous with Antarctica, only two of the 18 species of penguin can call the Antarctic continent their home: ...

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived ... perhaps even expanding further west into the southern Great Lakes ...

THIS FIERCE PEOPLE. By Alan Pell Crawford. Knopf. 400 pages. $32.50. One way to approach Alan Pell Crawford’s “This Fierce People” is to accept it for what it is — a potboiler from a ...

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...

This system was to go on in the New England colonies well into the 1700s, and the same system of church schools was predominant. However, they placed more of a focus on philosophy than simple bible ...

Whether you celebrate Halloween by reading ghost stories, with friends and family, or watching scary movies, we hope you have ...

Canada and the United States are about as closely allied and economically integrated as any two countries can be, but that doesn’t mean everything’s always “A-Ok, Eh.” Here are some of the biggest ...

FISH-EATING spiders the size of human hands are on the loose in Britain – here’s a map revealing where colonies are lurking.

Southern and eastern yellow jacket queens produce all caste members in the colony, and while mated queens from both species hibernate in the winter following the decline of their colonies ...

At midnight on June 11, 1940, Italy declared war on France. This was something that had been anticipated for some time, ...

Gulls are noisy, long-winged seabirds with webbed feet. Although some live almost exclusively on fish, most are omnivores, ...