Bamboo torture allegedly involved tying a victim over a fast-growing bamboo sprout, which eventually pierced their body, but ...

Gustav Klimt painted the Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer between 1914 and 1916 for some of his biggest patrons, August and ...

A new study found that urban raccoons had notably shorter snouts than their rural cousins, an early indicator of ...

Researchers were unaware that this large fossil was even an egg until they pierced through its membrane with microscopes and ...

Over the past four years, archaeologists have uncovered 16 ancient canoes left along the shore of Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota by ...

During excavations at a Late Natufian settlement near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, archaeologists uncovered a tiny clay ...

Divers exploring Lake Issyk-Kul in the Tianshan Mountains of eastern Kyrgyzstan found the ruins of a sunken city known as ...

Dating to the early 11th century C.E., these spears found near Ostrów Lednicki island were likely connected to the fort that ...

Gilda Radner died in 1989, and her husband Gene Wilder has said that her death could have been prevented if she'd been ...

The humongous fungus in Oregon is the largest organism, by area, in the entire world — but most of it is invisible to the ...

Vikings were renowned Norse warriors and seafarers, explorers and conquerors who conducted raids, traded goods, and explored ...

Frances Folsom Cleveland was 21 years old when she married President Grover Cleveland in 1886, making her the youngest First ...