It was the biggest shark to have ever swum in our seas and the largest predator the world has known.
Before the modern medical knowledge of coma, what did ancient people do to a person in coma? Did they bury them alive or something similar?
Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from African elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England.
Paranthropus robustus possessed unusually huge teeth with thick enamel.
The discovery of human artifacts made from a long-extinct sloth bones pushes back the estimated date of human settlement in Brazil to 25,000 to 27,000 years.
Researchers have uncovered a strange hot spot on the back side of the moon. The most likely culprit is a rock that is very rare outside of Earth.
The specimen provides the first unequivocal evidence of immature feathers in the Mesozoic fossil record.
Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is one of the harshest environments on Earth. Temperatures in the lake can reach 140 °F (60 °C) and its alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 12.
Medical professionals from a variety of fields were perplexed by her condition, as it challenged conventional understanding of sleep disorders and challenged the limits of human resilience.
Homo naledi, an extinct human relative with one-third the brain size of ours, buried and may have memorialized their dead, controversial research suggests.