Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...

"Given the octopus' remarkable intelligence, adaptability, and diverse range of survival strategies, it wouldn't be the most ...

The discovery that Neanderthals and not Homo sapiens likely created the artwork is challenging longstanding beliefs that ...

The third man phenomenon is most often seen in people facing extreme peril in which they felt a presence that helped lead ...

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

When the Five Families were first recognized, what’s now the Bonanno family was known as the Maranzano family. After Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931, Lucky Luciano awarded leadership of ...

Hidden for 1,800 years, a tiny silver amulet buried in a Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany, has now revealed the earliest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. In 2018, archaeologists ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research (INRAP) recently announced the discovery of a luxurious Gallo-Roman villa within the city of Reims. Inside, ...

While excavating Kuwait’s Bahra 1 archaeological site, one of the oldest settlements on the Arabian Peninsula, archaeologists came across a bizarre clay figurine that looked eerily like an alien. Its ...