The word "Connecticut" takes its namesake from the Mohegan word "Quinnehtukqut," which means "long tidal river" and references the Connecticut River – New England's longest, running through the state ...

A Rio de Janeiro zoo is giving ice pops to a bear, a jaguar, wolves and monkeys for some welcome relief from Brazil’s ...

In 1999, when the time came to name the newest panda cub in captivity, a column in the San Diego Union-Tribune joked that the ...

The Metro cards have animated photos of both Bao Li and Qing Bao and were first released on Wednesday, as part of a ...

If, as the saying goes, most people don’t want to know how sausage gets made, it stands to reason that even fewer want to ...