Chris Key was visiting the Cumberland River from Elkhorn to fish for striped bass and walleye, but he found something much bigger. Did you know there are big, ancient fish swimming in Kentucky's water ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? “This new research shows that the image many of us have in our minds of an ape to a ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

Founded by the Art Director of 2009's Flower and 2012's Journey, developer Giant Squid has put out a steady stream of sleeper hits over the last decade or so. 2016's Abzu was a contemplative ...

A researcher may have uncovered the oldest written references to Moses, dating back 3,800 years and hidden in an Egyptian desert. The two etchings were found at Serabit el-Khadim, an ancient turquoise ...

BERLIN, GERMANY—Popular Science reports that German scientists used advanced technology to virtually unroll a delicate ancient Buddhist scroll. For centuries, Mongolian nomads often carried portable ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

He reeled in a big one. A man fishing along a river in Poland was left stunned when the big catch he reeled in turned out to be a 700-year-old sword. The Capital Conservator of Monuments group, in ...

A 700-year-old sword was recently reeled in by a fisherman in Poland — offering a rare glimpse into warfare in the Middle Ages. The discovery was announced by the Capital Conservator of Monuments in ...

Elaborate tattoos featuring tigers, birds and a fantastical animal have been revealed on an ice mummy from more than 2000 years ago. The mummified woman was from the Pazyryk culture of Siberia, part ...