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 ...

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

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 ...

Discovered in 2016, the sandstone carvings on the western shore of Oahu depict human-like figures and extend across more than ...

For the first time in nearly a century, adult winter-run Chinook salmon have been spotted swimming in the McCloud River, a Northern California waterway.

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

In 1954, archaeologists discovered a 2,500-year-old underground shrine in southern Italy. Inside, they found eight bronze ...

The museum will house photographs, negatives and slides belonging to the renowned photographer, who captured life in New York ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

Scientists believe they have found the earliest biochemical evidence of people chewing the popular psychoactive plant ...

As many as one billion dogs live on our planet, and they are easily the most popular pet in the United States. Many people ...