Rare gladiator-shaped knife handle gives insight into Roman celebrity culture
English Heritage curator Frances McIntosh examines a newly discovered Roman knife handle…
Sabre-toothed ‘kitten’ mummy unearthed in Siberia is first of its kind
Shown here at left is the frozen Homotherium latidens specimen, the first…
Long-lost ocean worms photobomb tiny seahorses, surprising scientists
Scientists lost sight of Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, a species of bristle worm, for…
‘Possibility of a catastrophic failure’: Inside the space station leak problem that has NASA worried
Russia's Nauka module is seen docked to the Zvezda module's Earth-facing port…
Why Australian zoo is asking Sydney residents to catch deadly funnel-web spiders
No one has been killed by a funnel-web spider since the antivenom…
Analysis of Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveals first detailed information about moon’s far side
A researcher shows a lunar sample retrieved by the Chang'e-6 mission at…
Emperor penguin turns up on Australian beach, thousands of miles from home
The emperor penguin, pictured on Ocean Beach near Denmark, Western Australia
Scientists find new piece in puzzle of America’s oldest tombstone
The United States’ oldest known surviving tombstone from 17th century Jamestown has been…
Bones from the Mary Rose shipwreck reveal what life was like aboard a Tudor warship
The wreckage of the Mary Rose hull is on display at The…
‘Well-man’ remains found at a castle have been linked to an 800-year-old Norse saga
Researchers first excavated the remains of a skeletal torso — known as…