A hiker trekking through western Norway's Aurlandsfjellet mountains found an enormous 1,500-year-old reindeer trap made of ...

Frausto explained that the colossal pile of skulls, which was unearthed at about 10.5 feet below street level, had been a ...

By the end of the war, Audie Murphy had spent 400 days on the front lines and had been wounded three times. He had earned 33 U.S. medals, including the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, ...

Found in Australia's Goldfields region, the Megachile lucifer bee has two horn-like protuberances at the front of its head that may be used to access flowers.

The discovery occurred at the historic Sivan temple in the village of Kovilur, located near the Javvadu Hills in Tamil Nadu’s ...

The legend of Atlantis, a sophisticated island civilization said to have sunk into the ocean’s abyss, has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts for millennia. Originating from Plato’s dialogues, the ...

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day. In the 12th century B.C.E., Bronze Age civilizations began ...

“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 ...

Along the border of Northern Mexico and Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, there are whispers of a creature known as La Lechuza, a seven-foot owl with a woman’s face whose cries can be heard at night, enticing ...

Nine years after his conservative family was featured on the ABC show "Wife Swap," Jacob Stockdale fatally shot his mother and brother before attempting to kill himself. The show Wife Swap has a light ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., most of Pompeii’s 12,000 inhabitants managed to escape, but the nearly 2,000 who remained instantly died of the heat and gas that devastated the town. But the ...

In the 1880s, an heir to the vast Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune bought a 10-year-old girl just so he could draw her being eaten by cannibals. James S. Jameson was the great-great-grandson of John ...