One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

From the skull to the smallest bone in your pinky toe, the skeleton acts as internal scaffolding to give stability to the body, and forms protective cocoons around important organs. Despite their ...

In this new study, an international team of researchers combined several analytical methods to show that the supposed skeleton of Schwarzer Jonas clearly belonged to Schinderhannes and that the ...

A 2.5-metre sunfish has washed ashore on Western Australia's south coast. Sunfish are among the heaviest fish alive and can grow to more than 3 metres in length. A giant sunfish that washed up on ...

Paula and Dave Regan discovered the unsettling object while walking on a beach in Kent, England, on March 10 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor ...

A trip to show visitors around St Croix Island in Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, turned into the sighting of a lifetime for skipper Jake Keeton when they saw an ocean sunfish weighing about 500kg ...

A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal Date: March 11, 2025 Source: Yale University Summary: For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...

ROME — When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari became the first athlete to test the controversial sliding track for next year’s Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, he did so in a sort of ...

President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency. The Trump administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...