When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a public building, met his demise in a flash of superheated ash. But his brain ...

ROME — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection, the Vatican said. The ...

Ashley St. Clair has claimed that she and Elon Musk share a child. Musk has not publicly commented on her claim. Their ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...

The human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. Credit: Nadina CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia commons The prehistoric human ...