For more than a century, a peculiar physical condition known as ectrodactyly has afflicted the Stiles family. The rare congenital deformity makes hands look like lobster claws as the middle fingers ...
Tudor Close in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, purportedly inspired the mansion in the board game Clue, or Cluedo.
Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...
Workers restoring the former house of Russian merchant Averky Kirillov uncovered a trove of silver coins from the Time of ...
The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
When Mauna Loa volcano erupted in November 1935 and threatened the local water supply, officials dropped bombs to divert the ...
For three years, Hannah Upp lived peacefully on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She loved her work, and was loved by ...
After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.
This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ever found.
After the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted on November 13, 1985, 13-year-old Omayra Sánchez became trapped in debris. Three days later, French photographer Frank Fournier captured her final moments. In ...
Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists in history and his name has become a household term synonymous with genius. But although almost everyone has heard of the physicist and his ...
In 1982, Virginia Vallejo was a national sensation in her home country of Colombia. The 33-year old socialite, journalist, and TV personality had just scored her own TV show after starring in a series ...
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