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A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

On a November day in 1970, at a momentous time in the most consequential year of his life, one of the most famous people in the world was sitting alone on a blanket by the ocean south of the pier in ...

I turned the face at last to the light and it felt like the person was looking at me,” said TV presenter Sandi Toksvig while ...

From a half-million symmetrical lakes to a lost gold mine, our national parks and public lands are home to fascinating and ...

Hazbin Hotel is giving a window into the failure that earned Pentious' place in Hell—a sin of omission that ties to a centuries-old terror.

Researchers poured over historical photographs in search of "transients"—short-lived flashes of light of the night sky.

A new forensic analysis of the Shroud of Turin may have solved a centuries-old mystery surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus.

Art experts believe they have solved the mystery of a portrait of a previously unidentified black soldier that hangs in the ...

For more than eight decades, one of the Holocaust's most haunting images remained shrouded in mystery. The photograph shows a ...

More than 100 years after Harry B Helscel was murdered in Brookville, a bit of closure has come to his family.

While others made sleek metallic sculptures, she favored humble materials like lumber and glue. The Times called her “one of ...