Stone Age humans scavenged the skeletons of several whale species along the Bay of Biscay in what is now southwestern France ...

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little attention from artists during their lifetimes ...

In 2010, construction crews working in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a Revolutionary War-era gunboat buried deep ...

During the WHOI mission to photograph the USS F-1, the researchers also surveyed another piece of military wreckage: a lost ...

With plenty of artificial nectar available, Anna’s hummingbirds have expanded their range northward and their beaks have ...

One tomb belonged to Amum-em-Ipet, who lived during the Ramesside period (as the 19th and 20th Dynasties, the last two of the ...

The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...

The four British former special forces soldiers left the United Kingdom on May 16. By 7:10 a.m. on May 21, they were standing at the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak ...

Archaeologists say they've found the ruins of a soccer field in southwest Scotland that date to the 17th century ...

Created with synthetic textiles, the "nonwoven" gowns could be shortened for the reception or easily packed away for the honeymoon ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the ...