A house filled with snakes and spiders might be straight out of many people's nightmares, but to longtime exotic pet keeper ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

Drag superstar The Vivienne, musicians Ozzy Osbourne, D'Angelo and Brian Wison and Oscar winners Diane Keaton and Robert ...

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in Johannesburg, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing white Afrikaner refugees. The episode is sure to be a source of further ...

A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 11 people dead, police said, including three children. The children killed ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Southern rock undoubtedly enjoyed its heyday in the 70s. Bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers ruled the roost. The 80s were a much tougher time to navigate due to the influx of bands who ...

Great music transcends eras, but Southern rock in the '70s had its own special DNA, sewn from denim and funneled through a wailing Gibson. And these five songs best represent everything it had to ...

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and deep-river fish. Many were found not in the wild, but in museum collections, ...

The Art Porter Singers will continue one of their namesake's annual holiday traditions Sunday, performing portions of "Messiah" as well as a mix of Christmas carols and other seasonal songs at Little ...