On April 11, 1986, the FBI tracked two serial bank robbers down to a Miami side street. But when they tried to apprehend the ...

While the Sahara Desert is one of the driest places on Earth, it does receive rare heavy rainfall every few decades. In September, parts of the region saw nearly eight inches of rain, which is more ...

Beneath a mysterious, hand-carved structure built into the desert canyon walls in Petra, Jordan, archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons. The structure, known as ...

Rome is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And there's another city beneath its surface: a city of the dead. The catacombs of Rome stretch across almost 600 acres and include some 400 ...

Since the 1950s, some scholars have hypothesized a dual ancestry model to explain how the population of Japan first took shape thousands of years ago. This model posits that the native Jomon people ...

Anyone who has seen a happy cat has seen it knead: stretch out, purr, and gently massage the closest object (or person) with its paws. Now, archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered the earliest ...

There are millions of schools around the world, with more than 100,000 in the United States alone. These institutions are deeply embedded in countless communities around the globe. The typical student ...

Between March and December 1898, two lions dubbed the “Man-Eaters of Tsavo” carried out a brutal killing spree on railway workers near Kenya’s Tsavo River. In the end, the lions killed dozens of ...

The image of serial killer John Wayne Gacy dressed up as his alter ego, Pogo the Clown, is chilling, like something out of Stephen King’s It. One of history’s most notorious serial killers, Gacy ...

British doctor Thomas Kwan, 53, who donned a wig, fake facial hair, and a medical mask to secretly poison his mother’s former partner, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder, according to police in ...

Owls hold significant meaning in Native American cultures, and many tribes have their own myths related to these mysterious nocturnal birds. The Yakama, who live at the border between what is now ...