Royal walnut moth dries its wings on the stem of a fairy candle after emerging from the soil below. (Tami Gingrich photo) ...

Air quality alerts were in effect on Tuesday for millions of residents across New York, Connecticut, and Southern California, ...

On July 1, 1858, at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London, two papers on natural selection were presented jointly on ...

The menorahs are blue, made of polymer resin and measure 6 inches high x 13 inches long. They can hold up to nine tapered candles in the metal candle cups located on the dinosaur's back.

Hanukkah menorahs should safely hold candles that burn out each night. The menorah itself shouldn’t light ablaze, which is why Target recalled 4,400 Spritz Taper Resin Dino Hanukkah Menorahs on ...

Hanukkah menorahs should safely hold candles that burn out each night. The menorah itself shouldn’t light ablaze, which is why Target recalled 4,400 Spritz Taper Resin Dino Hanukkah Menorahs on ...

Hanukkah is now celebrated by lighting candles on a nine-branched menorah, but the seven-branched menorah depicted on the lamp was used only in rituals in the Jerusalem Temple.

In Steamboat Springs, Colo., a local artist made a menorah for Hanukkah from recycled snowboards. It's not the first time he has been inspired to infuse the holiday with a little mountain culture.

On Sunday at sundown, Temple Ahavat Achim marked 10 years of the temple bringing light into the darkness for Hanukkah by constructing a hanukkiah, or nine-branched candelabrum, from borrowed lobster ...

And so, during this holiday, a menorah is a candelabra with nine candles: four candles on each side and one in the center to light all the others.

Hanukkah candles are lit from left-to-right; the number of candles that are lit tells you which night of the holiday it is. For example, on the first night of Hanukkah, a Menorah only has two ...