Benjamin Franklin’s name appears on a newly discovered list of members of the Union Fire Department, which he founded in 1736.
Five years after Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 transatlantic solo flight, Amelia Earhart became the second person and first woman to accomplish the feat.
Research suggests the marine reptiles known as pliosaurs got arthritis, and their dinosaur contemporaries might also have suffered from the condition.
Located in southwest France, a collapsed rock shelter might contain the oldest wall art ever discovered, a new study suggests.
Archaeologists at Xultún, a Maya site in Guatemala, have discovered walls with paintings and writing, including calculations related to the Maya calendar.
Two skulls belonging to individuals who underwent the ancient form of surgery known as trepanation have been unearthed in Spain.
Rebellatrix, a new member of the “living fossil” coelacanth group, shows a different side of these ancient (but not extinct) fish.
Find out more about the origins and evolution of the annual event.
