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Jono Allen tells PEOPLE exclusively about his mesmerizing career as an underwater photographer, and how one ocean dive with ...

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The Club World Cup was a “dress rehearsal” for the U.S., which will host next summer’s bigger, grander, more prestigious ...

A nine-week-old liger named Goliath is currently making headlines. The unusual big cat cub was born in mid-May at a private zoo in Zaharesti, Romania. PETBOOK editor and biologist Saskia Schneider ...

There are places in this world that defy logical explanation, and then there’s Mister Ed’s Elephant Museum & Candy Emporium in Orrtanna, where sugar meets safari in the most delightfully absurd way ...

Founding of Seneca Village In 1825, a shoeshiner named Andrew Williams paid $125 for three lots in upper Manhattan. That same ...