Two of the Xianbei women's skeletons showed signs of horseback riding and archery — activities synonymous with military training.

Whether it's goats in Wales or coyotes in San Francisco, wildlife is thriving during the pandemic even though the human world has been brought to a standstill.

A new geological study challenges an old theory that scientists have previously used to account for these gaps.

Explorer George Murray Levick was both excited and shocked to discover the extreme sexual displays he saw among Antarctic penguins.

After disarming an assassin, Oliver Sipple was hailed a hero. But the ensuing media storm outed him as gay and upended his entire life.

Millions of meteors reach Earth daily, but since 1988, only 822 have been large enough to explode in the atmosphere causing meteorite showers.

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm made history when she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. Just four years later, she set her sights on the White House.

The Black Death was the deadliest pandemic in human history and scholars still struggle to map when and where it began. But some of the most compelling theories are truly disturbing.

The ink contains a newly discovered type of blue pigment that researchers say is "in a class of its own."

Doctors believe the bullet entered the woman's left side, was diverted by her implants, and then lodged behind her right breast where it remained until surgery.

Poetry challenges known as 'flyting' duels were the medieval equivalent of the modern-day rap battle.