PhD student Victor Beccari was studying reptile fossils at London's Natural History Museum when he saw something that looked oddly familiar: a specimen very similar to one he'd seen at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

The face was carved into a wooden beam around 967 C.E. and was likely part of a medieval fortress that once stood on an island in the middle of Poland's Lake Lednica.

Scientists aren't able to determine which species of dinosaur the 67-million-year-old vertebra belonged to, but it was likely a small herbivore.

His mother and adult brother, both struggling with drug addiction, kept him out of school and away from other children. The boy was largely left to bond only with the dogs and communicated by barking.

The tombstone was discovered in the center of Gdańsk, Poland, and archaeologists believe it dates back to at least the 14th century.

These 22 colossal stone blocks, some weighing as much as 80 tons, include parts of everything from the Lighthouse of Alexandria's threshold to its base to its door.

Though it initially looked like a piece of rebar, Andrzej Korpikiewicz cleaned off the leeches, snails, and shrimp clinging to it — and revealed a sword.

These bowls, plates, and pots still had their designs intact, thanks to a one-of-a-kind technique in which they were coated in a protective layer of raw clay.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania isolated select molecules from the fungus Aspergillus flavus and turned them into a "cancer-killing compound that rivals FDA-approved drugs."

For the last century, experts had largely assumed that many statues of Hatshepsut were broken during antiquity because she was a rare female ruler and because her stepson and successor, Thutmose III, despised her and wanted to tarnish her legacy.

Scientists built a primitive canoe using only tools and methods available during the Stone Age to see if they could complete the 140-mile journey early humans made 30,000 years ago.