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.
The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
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 ...
When Mauna Loa volcano erupted in November 1935 and threatened the local water supply, officials dropped bombs to divert the ...
On June 30, 1971, a Soviet retrieval team anxiously awaited the return of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts in a remote region of Kazakhstan. A nearby recovery helicopter spotted the scorched parachute of the ...
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.
For three years, Hannah Upp lived peacefully on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She loved her work, and was loved by ...
On January 25, 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan left Port Douglas, Australia by boat with a group. They were off to dive St. Crispin’s reef, a popular dive site in the Great Barrier Reef. But something ...
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 ...
This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ever found.
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