Before going extinct roughly two million years ago, canids known as borophagines took down and consumed much larger prey ...

John Wilkes Booth will forever be known as the infamous assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln—but he didn’t act alone. Lewis Powell, Mary Surratt, John Surratt, David Herold, and George Atzerodt each ...

Maggots might have helped our long-extinct relatives avoid protein poisoning by providing a nutritious source of fat, a new study suggests ...

Englishman Thomas Stukeley offered his services to various Catholic powers. He died while fighting for the Portuguese at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir on August 4, 1578 ...

A man of the people, the artist put his money where his mouth was by visiting prisons around the country and performing the ...

Footage taken off the coast of Norway reveals that orcas team up to maximize their prey, according to a new study ...

An art dealer attending a house clearance sale spotted the Surrealist's signature in the corner of the work, which depicts a ...

The pok-ta-pok revival began in Mexico in the mid-1900s, but it only picked up steam over the past decade, with Belize ...

Blue crabs, bluebirds, beetles and many more creatures can be spotted in and around the bay—and scientists at the Smithsonian ...

The Dudderhouse Hill long cairn is one of the oldest known sites built by humans in England. It now has the highest level of ...

The soul house, which dates to around 2055 to 1650 B.C.E., was originally excavated at Deir Rifa, a series of ancient ...

Researchers equipped study participants with virtual reality headsets and observed how their brains and immune systems ...