This year, the Institution collected everything from the stunning shell of an extinct cephalopod to a Blue Origin rocket ...

David Hole, an amateur prospector who kept a rock he picked in 2015, was surprised to learn that he had been keeping a ...

David Hole found a heavy rock, believing it to contain gold. After years of futile attempts to crack it open, he took it to ...

Cape Town has no shortage of breathtaking scenery. But beyond some of its more famous landmarks, the city is also home to a ...

Toulouse in the south of France is often referred to as a 'mini Paris' and it's not hard to see why. With its stunning ...

If Earth’s Hidden Treasures is the Indiana Jones of rock shops, Your Enchanted Crystal in Fairview Heights is more like ...

For coin collectors or numismatists, state quarters are a common collection. Although the majority of state quarters are ...

Spread out before you is a veritable playground of mining history. Old ore carts, rusted and weather-beaten, sit silently on ...

MOSCOW — University of Idaho Extension is working to build a program that will train volunteers to collect and identify bees, ...

The capybara – a semi-aquatic South American relative of the guinea pig — is the latest in a long line of “it” animals to get ...

The hornets, which can be 2 inches (5 cm) long and were formerly called Asian giant hornets, gained attention in 2013, when ...