Divers began opening an underwater pit Saturday at a remote site in northern Lake Michigan that they say could be the resting place of the Griffin, a ship commanded by the 17th century French explorer La Salle.

At a snail farm in lake-rich northern Poland, one of a growing number of breeders across the country, it is easy to accidentally step on a mollusk making a break for freedom.

A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said Saturday.

Palaeontologists have made the surprising evolutionary discovery that ancient Australian fish may have had abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals.

Belgium's centuries-old beers, product of the small country's location at a culinary and cultural crossroads between north and southern Europe, are taking the world's tipplers by storm.

An intriguing stellar cluster located 7,000 light years from Earth has prompted astronomers to create a new class of stars with “pulsating” brightness, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said on Wednesday.

After years of communist-era shortages, then a craze for Western fast food, Polish cuisine is undergoing a revival thanks to quality local ingredients and a modern twist on traditional fare.

The first amphibian to have been declared extinct by the world's conservation watchdog has been named a “living fossil” after it was rediscovered alive and well in northern Israel, researchers reported on Tuesday.

The earliest evidence of wine in France suggests that it came from Italy, and that it was mixed with basil, thyme and other herbs, according to research published on Monday.

A team of researchers seeking to solve the mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance say a sonar image taken from just beyond the shore of a remote Pacific island could be a piece of wreckage from her plane.