Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the ...

With maroon stockings, white sleeves, a heathered gray vest and an orange mask fringed by a wispy white beard, red-shanked ...

In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

The earliest man-made golf balls ever uncovered were primitive spheres made of hardwood on the east coast of Scotland in the ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

Ornithologists and locals wonder what the future holds for this chick being raised by much taller, but still doting parents ...

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane ...

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...