Schinderhannes is a nickname for Johannes Bückler, a criminal who was born sometime in 1779 in Germany, to a family of ...

The legendary robbers Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas were executed by guillotine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, Jacob Fidelis ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...

Paleontologists in France have uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved 70-million-year-old titanosaur skeleton. The ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

The study claims the deoxy ribose sugar proved as successful as minoxidil at regrowing hair, with both between 80 and 90 ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...

However, analysis of skeletons belonging to “extremely active” people might prove that they were dead wrong — and that poor physical laborers could’ve been interred there as well.

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 ...

Egyptian Empire Was Built Around Cruelty, Skeletons With Iron Shackles Found in 2,300-Yr-Old Gold Mine Reveal Grim Reality ...