Near my childhood home was a small river. It wasn’t much more than a creek at the best of times, and in dry summers it would sometimes almost dry up completely. But snowmelt revived it each ...

Catholic hospitals run 20% of California’s maternity wards. Their policies generally prohibit abortion, even in miscarriage, as long as a heartbeat can be detected.

The seal rested his head on the hood of one car and half-climbed over another before crossing a road and lumbering down a sidewalk. He eventually stopped next to a shopping mall.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa early Tuesday ...

It was an unusual sight in Gordon's Bay, a seaside town near Cape Town: an elephant seal weighing two tons galumphed down its ...