Africa is splitting apart and, in five to ten million years, will become two separate continents divided by a new, sixth ...

After studying the samples, Dr. Evans determined that the cave spiders had been hijacked by a fungus he dubbed Gibellula ...

Scientists have long known that beer played an important role in ancient Mesopotamia, widely known as the cradle of human ...

Described as a reptilian creature with spines along its back, the Chupacabra is a legendary creature of the American Southwest known for attacking livestock and drinking their blood. Few cryptids are ...

Life for Leonarda Cianciulli had never been easy. In her youth, she attempted suicide twice. As an adult, she and her husband got pregnant 17 times — but suffered three miscarriages and lost 10 of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently announced the discovery of the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II — the first royal burial chamber to be unearthed since Howard Carter found the tomb of King ...

When Betty and Barney Hill arrived at the office of Boston psychiatrist Benjamin Simon on Dec 14, 1963, they appeared to have a number of perfectly normal problems. Betty was suffering from nightmares ...

For 13 years, archaeological excavations in Libya had been paused due to civil war. But archaeologists were finally able to return to the country in 2023 and, while performing excavations in the ...

In May 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a brigadier general anxiously wrote George Washington a letter about a British raid that had just occurred in Danbury, Connecticut. Though the British had ...

Tammi Terrell’s voice became a symbol of R&B and soul in the 1960s, immortalized through her unforgettable duets with Marvin Gaye. But behind her powerful music was a life marked by hardship, abuse, ...

Around 500,000 years ago, a sinkhole opened in Florida’s Big Bend region. Hundreds of animals met their deaths in its depths, and their remains were eventually entombed in sediment. In 2022, two ...