Scientists in Bolivia have discovered Leopardus tilcayo, or the tilcayo tiger, the first new cat species that's been ...

Geologists surveying a protected animals' habitat in the Santa Cruz Mountains of San Mateo County uncovered an enormous ...

Found at the fortress of Herodium near Jerusalem, this 2,000-year-old ring probably belonged to an official working for ...

Paleontologists in the Hell Creek Formation found four footprints that represent the first trackway of a full-grown T. rex ...

Archaeologists excavating near Tenosique uncovered burials that included three stingray barbs that were probably used in ...

In the lonely, icy waters of Antarctica, a mysterious monster is said to lurk in the depths. Known as the Ningen, it’s allegedly ghostly white and longer than a blue whale. Eerily, it’s also said to ...

You know how some people can’t stop thinking about the Roman Empire? Well, for a growing corner of the internet, the Romans are yesterday’s news. The civilization that captures their imagination is ...

If someone asked you about your favorite food, a Cessna 150 airplane probably wouldn’t be the first thing that came to mind. For Michel Lotito, France’s Monsieur Mangetout (or Mr. Eat-All), a plane ...

The phrase “going postal,” which means to become uncontrollably angry, appeared as a slang term in American English in the 1990s. It emerged after a spate of shootings at post offices carried out by ...

In today’s world, there’s plenty of jockeying over who is the richest person alive. But no one today can hold a candle to the net worth of Mansa Musa, an incredibly wealthy 14th-century Malian ruler.

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...