People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

After discovering the ancient artwork in a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece, the man surrendered it to the police. Authorities are analyzing the statue and investigating why it was abandoned ...

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” Colin Schultz ...

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

In places like Colorado and Minnesota, international teams of talented snow artists are creating larger-than-life ...