The ancient tattoos, which would have required trained artistry and hours of work, would be difficult for even modern ...

Through the palace's smartphone app, visitors can speak with nearly two dozen stunning sculptures and fountains at the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 genome analysis indicates wild tomatoes and a potato-like plant called Etuberosum hybridized to create the modern potato ...

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 ...

Downstream from the crater left behind by the drainage, researchers identified an odd region of disrupted ice. Though the ice ...

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

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