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

General George Washington leads Continental Army troops across the Delaware River late Christmas night to carry out a surprise attack on Hessian forces. The German troops who were aiding the British ...

In 2003, the bizarre “pizza bomber” case in Erie, Pennsylvania, captured the country’s attention. A pizzeria employee named Brian Wells had walked into a bank with a bomb strapped around his neck, ...

As a self-described protégé of legendary film director Francis Ford Coppola, Victor Salva has long been one of the most controversial directors in Hollywood. His debut feature film, Clownhouse, ...

On Dec. 9, 2024, a Virginia hunter named Lester Harvey was killed by the very bear he set out to shoot. The 58-year-old father and grandfather passed away four days after a freak hunting accident in ...

Archaeologists in Myanmar have discovered the preserved skull of the smallest dinosaur to ever inhabit the Earth entombed in amber. For nearly 100 million years, the half-inch skull filled with sharp ...

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, ...

For almost 30 years, it was possible to fly from London to New York in about three hours. Not only that, but it was possible to fly in a plane that could go faster and soar higher than other ...

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 ...

An antique, rusty pocket watch recovered from a passenger who died on the Titanic sold for a pretty penny at auction. The watch — which belonged to Sinai Kantor, a Jewish Russian immigrant aboard the ...

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 ...

Jordan Belfort, best known as the Wolf of Wall Street, is famous for a few things: defrauding investors out of millions, crashing a car while high on Quaaludes, and his tumultuous relationships. Today ...