With just three days until opening day, Mammoth Mountain received 5 inches of fresh snowfall Monday night, helping fill in the slopes ahead of the ski resort’s 71st season kickoff Friday.

Or is it? Scientists and conservationists here say they’ve brought a zebralike mammal back from the dead, giving the quagga a major win over the more-famous Woolly mammoth and Dodo bird in the ...

A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their identities before the cataclysmic volcanic eruption. A team of ...