From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing ...

Because of his alleged involvement with the Ghost Dance movement, the Lakota leader, who died on this day in 1890, was seen ...

Mount Fuji’s last eruption, which happened on this day in 1707, was also its largest, spewing ash and debris over cities and ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political ...

Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a ...

Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

With teams competing in outlandish physical challenges, the Zogo dell’Oca of Mirano showcases Italy’s flair for invented ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil ...

From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this ...

The scales on crocodiles’ heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the ...