Witness accounts noted in the study claim the saint had struck his head when a tree had fallen on his way to Naples, Italy.

Janine Flock of Austria has won the women’s World Cup skeleton championship for the third time in her career, and Matt Weston of Britain clinched the men’s skeleton overall title for the second ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

A face carved out of mammoth ivory Where it is from: The South Moravian region of the Czech Republic When it was made: About ...

The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...