The winners and finalists of the The Nature Photography Contest offer a stunning visual journey — sometimes humorous, other times dramatic — through the beauty and fragility of our planet.

A mixture of history, archeology, and several other scientific disciplines, has led scientists to positively identify the remains of Schinderhannes, a legendary German criminal, after a 220-year ...

Call it a UFO: an unidentified floating object. Beachcombers were baffled over a creepy, “skeleton-like” figure with fins that washed ashore in the UK, as seen in viral photos making waves online.

Paula and Dave Regan discovered the unsettling object while walking on a beach in Kent, England, on March 10 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...

A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal Date: March 11, 2025 Source: Yale University Summary: For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Some 1,600 years ago, a mysterious woman was bound with four heavy metal rings around her neck and others around her arms and legs. Iron plates on her stomach completed what was effectively an ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Scientists used ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

A couple made an unsettling discovery during their stroll down a beach in England. Paula and Dave Regan were in the seaside town of Margate on March 10 when they spotted a mermaid-like skeletal ...

A comparsa at the 2018 Mesoamerican Congress of Living Community Cultures, who support Caravana Quetzalcoátl. (IberCultura Viva) A colorful wave of music, theater, dance and creative expression ...