Cats are theorized to be older than dogs, with their family tree branching off nearly 2.5 million years before canines. They ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

It’s no surprise that man’s best friend has several features in the myths and folklore that lace through history. We see gods of revenance, creatures that embody both loyalty and rage, and the many ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna ... the inscriptions and select drawings of the pronaos’ decorations, his death in 1976 halted this documentation project. Most of the inscriptions he transcribed ...

The mystery of the 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy, whose face has been ... form of muscle stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into rigor mortis. However, it's a contentious ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

CAIRO, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a building collapse in central Egypt's Asyut province rose to nine on Wednesday. "Eight of the victims were females, including a six-month-old baby ...

Fossilised sea urchins amongst other sea creatures dating back to the time of dinosaurs, a whopping 230 million years ago, have also been found in West and East Runton, right beside Cromer.

Archimedes invented the ‘death ray’ to burn the Roman ships sieging Syracuse ... In the 6th century BCE the Persians had invaded Egyptian lands and were advancing to conquer territories. The fighting ...

The hunters' victims include the Egyptian Vulture, the Osprey, and the Lanner Falcon, all classified as endangered. Also hunted: the Northern Lapwing and the European Turtle Dove, both vulnerable ...

Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, a youth soccer coach, was charged with murder Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court in the death of 13-year-old Oscar “Omar” Hernandez, whose body was found ...

Days after losing her husband, Queen of Versailles star Jackie Siegel is mourning the death of her sister, Jessica Mallery. She was 43. “As I mourn the profound loss of my beloved husband David ...