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Researchers discovered a huge population of ice fish (notothenioids) in the Weddell Sea south of Antarctica in a report published January 13 in the journal Current Biolo…
New research has solved the nearly three-decade mystery of a strange fossil man found in a calcite mineral deposit in a cave system near Altamura (Italy).
Israeli researchers recently discovered that the wealthiest inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem contracted an intestinal parasite due to hygiene problems.
About 2,500 years ago, a man in Northwest China was buried with armor made of more than 5,000 skin scales.
Astronomers photographed asteroids as large as a house with a diameter of about 4.2 - 9.5 m passed the Earth.
The Earth, and the whole solar system, is strangely suspended in the middle of empty space, according to research led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysic…
Mysterious stories of ancient Peru once spoke of the ability of kings and nobles to control the minds of warriors and subjects.
After the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts, the indigenous population fell from 30,000 to just 300 - within a decade.
Up to the present time, the doomsday events still contain countless mysteries that humans have not been able to fully discover.
Scientists find strange radio waves, unlike anything seen before, originating from the center of the Milky Way.
According to ancient mythology, the 'Horse of Troy' helped the Greeks capture the city of Troy after a period of siege.
A creature lurking in the ocean has broken all the rules of life by surviving in an environment with almost no oxygen. They still breathe, by making their own oxygen wit…
An international team of scientists has discovered that the mechanism of human fingerprint formation does not lie deep in the skin but correlates with the development of…
Bathed in ultraviolet (UV) rays 10 times more deadly than Earth is today, the small group of creatures continued to survive and evolve for several billion years - they w…
Elon Musk, the founder of the company SpaceX, shared a drone shot of the Starship launch tower that flies to the Moon and Mars.