Over the years, visitors to a Santa Monica park have seen a dramatic increase in ground squirrels.

These underrated Marvel characters oftentimes find themselves misunderstood and unfairly despised by the fanbase.

Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition. NPR News Nuggets: Happy Feet, Squirrel Attack & A Lasting Smell NPR News Nuggets: Happy Feet, ...

In 1970, officials in Oregon thought they had found the perfect solution to a massive whale carcass that had washed ashore: 450 kilograms of TNT. What happened next became one of the strangest and ...

Before the storm of flames known as the Erskine Fire struck her South Lake neighborhood in the Kern River Valley, Angela Looper had been watching “2012,” a movie depicting apocalyptic disaster. “We ...

There are few greater pleasures on a balmy summer’s day than a riverside mosey, gazing at sun-dappled waters that evoke happy ...

Castle Rock State Park in Oregon, Illinois sits quietly along the Rock River, minding its own business while tourists flock ...

And while fireworks are illegal in Bellingham city limits, Birch Bay is a hotspot for folks hoping to put on their own show. Thousands of individual displays are launched from the beach on July 4 each ...

Ewing, Virginia sits tucked away in the southwestern mountains, a tiny town that most people have never heard of and even ...

KEARNEY — Research at the University of Nebraska at Kearney doesn’t stop when the academic year ends. For Andrew Yemma, a ...

A trailer loaded with fireworks erupted in flames along a Tennessee interstate Saturday night, sending pyrotechnics shooting across the roadway and forcing authorities to temporarily shut down traffic ...

Ground squirrels spend many months in a winter slumber, and then awake ravenous and eat anything and everything in sight. A study of 700,000-year-old DNA from coprolites — fossilized poo — has now ...