In a new study published in Science, researchers analyzed the impacts of free-roaming bison in Yellowstone National Park.

September 11, 2001 was one of the darkest days in modern American history. In a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, carried out by al-Qaeda, hijacked commercial planes were turned into deadly ...

Researchers at the British Museum have used an ancient skull to reconstruct what the human face looked like 9,500 years ago. Working from a skull uncovered in Jericho — in the modern-day West Bank — ...

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If his own confession before his brutal execution is to be believed, then Peter Niers slaughtered 544 people — 24 of which were pregnant women he killed for their fetuses. The legends of Peter Niers ...

From the truth behind the cherry tree myth to the shocking story of his infamous dentures, these astounding facts about George Washington will change how you see America's foremost founding father.

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

On an otherwise normal day around 1150, residents of the English village of Woolpit made a startling discovery on the edge of town — two small children with green skin. Not only did the children look ...

On August 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins was fatally shot after being chased by up to 30 white youths in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 1989, a Black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins ...

It was a clear, chilly night in April. The largest vessel ever to float at 800 feet long, displacing 45,000 tons, and declared unsinkable by all who had seen her was gliding through the water with ...

In ancient Rome, nothing could spice up a night like attending a venatio. These battles, usually held at the Colosseum or in Circus Maximus, involved exotic animals like lions, bears, and hippos.

Judith Eva Barsi was a promising child star before her father József Barsi murdered her and her mother Maria inside their Los Angeles home on July 25, 1988. Behind the scenes, József Barsi terrorized ...