Large dinosaurs had warm blood but were not necessarily warm-blooded, according to an innovative new study.
Find out about famous gangsters who became informants for the U.S. government, including the recently captured Whitey Bulger.
Did a referee's blown call cost a Roman gladiator his life some 1,800 years ago?
Residents of Herculaneum, a Roman city destroyed in 79 A.D., ate such delicacies as sea urchins, figs and dormice, according to a recent analysis of a sewer found on the site.
King Tut may have been hastily sealed into his tomb even before the paint on its walls had time to dry, according to new research.
A historian has put forth a new theory about the Shroud of Turin, suggesting it was painted by the Renaissance master Giotto and based on Jesus’ actual burial cloth.
The enormous death toll of America’s bloodiest conflict may be even higher than we think, according to one historian’s recent analysis.
Early human males were homebodies who barely strayed from their native caves, while females traveled far to find their mates, according to a new study.