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Giant icebergs the size of Norwich were drifting off the coast of Britain during the last ice…

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat…

This spring, Brood XIV—also known as Brood 14—will surface across at least 13 eastern US states. These cicadas have spent the last 17 years underground and are expected to appear in the coming weeks as soil temperatures hit the…

Melting glaciers in North America 10,000 years ago may have given continental drift a bit of a push. Similar activity in Greenland now could eventually trigger volcanic eruptions in Iceland.

Geoscientists modeled a chain of events that demonstrate…

Both lung cancer diagnoses and deaths in men and women have declined over the past 20 years. That trend has helped improve the overall cancer mortality picture. Twenty years of cancer data indicate a slow, gradual, but significant change, with…

Tardigrades take extreme living to another level, thriving in the toughest conditions. These animals (nicknamed “water bears” for their rotund figure) live practically everywhere and can endure any ordeal thrown their way, from subzero…

Encountering rattlesnake venom is something many of us would prefer to avoid. But for a research team from the University of South Florida, this venom may hold the key to species evolution and protection.

A new study, published in Evolution, has…

Australia’s giant kangaroos of yesteryear were likely homebodies — and that inclination ultimately did them in.

The massive marsupial megaherbivores, which, at an estimated 375 pounds, weighed more than twice as much as contemporary kangaroos,…

Tales of gladiators going head-to-head with ferocious lions in ancient Rome’s coliseum are legendary. Scenes of such deadly combat have been portrayed in stories, paintings, and mosaics (a Man versus Big Cat conflict was even suggested in the…

Archaeologists have uncovered the first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting lions, after bite marks on a skeleton excavated in York, England, were identified as those of a large cat. 

The remains, found at Driffield Terrace – one of…